delingma@THUNDER.LAKEHEADU.CA (06/27/91)
I am trying to Soft PC on my Mac Plus at home. The program works great, I get a Norton SI rating of about 0.3 of a 4.77MHz Xt :-) but I don't need blinding speed. (Better not with that rating...) My question is this: I only have a 512 keyboard (I used to have a 512, but got the motherboard swap up to a Plus.) This means I have no arrow keys, and no numeric keypad. The manual says to get the function keys etc you need to use the command and number to get it. This does not work. It also says that the arrow keys map to the IBM arrow keys. I do not have any arrow keys. Does anyone know of a workaround for this? A patch? Should I write a little DA that posts keyboard events to softpc? (do you want to write one for me for free :-) ) All I really want to do is to compile IBM programs using turbo C (I can background this in multifinder) but not having half my keyboard is kind of crippling. Thanks. (IF anyone from Insignia sees this, and can help, or if you know their E-mail address, please pass it on to me) Dan Lingman delingma@thunder.lakeheadu.ca ATDT 572-5375
insignia@netcom.COM (Dave Hull) (06/27/91)
delingma@THUNDER.LAKEHEADU.CA writes: >I am trying to Soft PC on my Mac Plus at home. The program works great, >I get a Norton SI rating of about 0.3 of a 4.77MHz Xt :-) but I don't need >blinding speed. (Better not with that rating...) >My question is this: I only have a 512 keyboard (I used to have a 512, but >got the motherboard swap up to a Plus.) This means I have no arrow keys, >and no numeric keypad. The manual says to get the function keys etc you need >to use the command and number to get it. This does not work. It also says >that the arrow keys map to the IBM arrow keys. I do not have any arrow keys. >Does anyone know of a workaround for this? A patch? Your best bet would be to get a key mapping program such as QuickKeys. Set up the keys on a Mac that has the proper keys and then map them out appropreately on your Mac. -- "There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was the world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?" --Samuel Johnson "The same questions can be asked about your job." --What Color is Your Parachute *Dave Hull insignia@netcom.com* Insignia Tech Support (415) 694-7604 Any opinions here are mine. My employers are kind enough not to read them.