crooks@ingr.UUCP (Steve Crooks) (11/08/88)
I've just discovered that my 2000 came with the old style keyboard that messes up some stuff because of timing problems. Yes, it took me quite a while to confirm this, but I'm not a big game fan, and I could always play them on my wife's 1000. The Processor Accelerator, however.... I seem to remember that a simple hardware hack to fix this problem was floating around a long, long time ago. Is this true, or am I just dreaming? If a hack does exist, I would very much appreciate it if someone would email me the docs on how to do it. Otherwise, does anybody know how much a new keyboard costs? 1/2 :-) By the way, this keyboard also came with English (?) keycaps. I got my 2000 mail order from Mountain Software. The `2' has the double quote over it, the `3' has the English pound sign over it, and the (normally) `"' key has the at sign and something else. (I think that's the way it is anyway--I'm at work, and I don't really *look* at my keyboard that often.) Interesting, huh? Steve Crooks ...uunet!ingr!crooks!crooks
coco@sfsup.UUCP (+Lugo F.) (11/09/88)
I also have a keyboard with timing problems. If anyone does have a fix, make that correction, for this please send me the specs also. --Coco E-MAIL: coco@attunix.att.com
billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (11/12/88)
From article <2857@ingr.UUCP:, by crooks@ingr.UUCP (Steve Crooks):
: I've just discovered that my 2000 came with the old style keyboard that
: messes up some stuff because of timing problems. Yes, it took me quite
: a while to confirm this, but I'm not a big game fan, and I could always
: play them on my wife's 1000. The Processor Accelerator, however....
:
: I seem to remember that a simple hardware hack to fix this problem was
: floating around a long, long time ago. Is this true, or am I just
: dreaming? If a hack does exist, I would very much appreciate it if
: someone would email me the docs on how to do it.
I don't have the hack handy, but I do remember getting it off of
People Link. If you have access there, or know someone who does... I gave
it a try on my old keyboard when it first came out, but had ambiguous
results. (I was using a 74123 oneshot rather than the recommended 74LS123)
There has been a good discussion about this very thing on PLink lately,
with several people who've successfully done the hack and had it work at
14MHz. I'd definately give it a try before buying a new keyboard. (As a
matter of fact, that's just exactly what I ended up doing...)
: Steve Crooks ...uunet!ingr!crooks!crooks
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