joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang) (11/30/87)
Is there anyway to simulate the Tandy 1000 F11 and F12 keys on a ordinary PC?
ahs@mtx5a.UUCP (12/02/87)
> Is there anyway to simulate the Tandy 1000 F11 and F12 keys on a ordinary PC?
No. If you want to use your 12 function key version of DeskMate II
on a 10 function key PC, you will have significant difficulty. DeskMate II
software somehow prevents you from redefining other PC keys to look
like F11 and F12.
I have a Tandy 1000SX at home and found DeskMate II to be a very handy
integrated package for nearly everything I need to do at home and at work.
To use DeskMate II on my IBM PC/XT at work, I bought the 10 function key
version from Tandy. That version uses ALT F10 to replace F12, for example.
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/* Written 10:17 am Nov 30, 1987 by joe@athena.mit.edu in uiucuxf:comp.sys.tandy */ /* ---------- "Tandy 1000 Function Keys" ---------- */ Is there anyway to simulate the Tandy 1000 F11 and F12 keys on a ordinary PC? /* End of text from uiucuxf:comp.sys.tandy */ Probably not. The F11 and F12 keys generate the keyboard scan code combinations 00 98 and 00 99 (unshifted). If IBM was logical, all you'd have to do is write a little assembly code to put these values into the keyboard input buffer; then when the program asks BIOS for the next key, BIOS would return 00 98, for instance, which is F11. But -- the IBM PC BIOS keyboard interrupt THROWS AWAY any keyboard scan codes above a certain point which it considers "legal". So these scan codes get ignored altogether.