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Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus

by "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jun 24, 2008 at 02:58 PM

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Bill Garber wrote:
> > "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > 
> >>a2aviator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >>
> >>>You need to have the capslock key that the Franklin has, otherwise
> >>>you're emulating softswitch lowercase.
> >>>
> >>>If the lower case works as is on the //e keyboard with a ][+ and the
> >>>lowercase character ROM installed, then it shouldn't be much
different
> >>>to have it send the right stuff to a Franklin.
> >>
> >>But GETLN in the ][ and ][+ monitor converts lower case to upper case,
> >>so BASIC won't see anything but upper case.
> >>
> >>To see any lower case, you'll need an application that accepts it from
> >>the keyboard (most will expect the ****ft key mod).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know about that, Mike. If the ROM has the upper 32 codes 
> > defined, then why wouldn't it do it? When I type * PRINT CHR$(65+32) 
> > on the Franklin, it displays "a", and also on my II+ with the Dan
Paymar 
> > ROM installed. It would be trivial to program those codes into the
encoder. 
> 
> If you have a lower case character generator ROM, then your machine
> can display lower case, but you can't type it into a BASIC program
> from the keyboard, even if the keyboard does deliver lower case,
> because the monitor routine that BASIC (and a lot of other software)
> uses folds lower case to upper case.


Even if it's between quotes in a PRINT command, say? 

And, if so, then we would need to modify the monitor ROM. 
Might turn out to be a lot of work, if there isn't a lot of space 
in it to provide more firmware. 

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com
 




 31 Posts in Topic:
IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-21 20:44:34 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
Steven Hirsch <snhirsc  2008-06-21 22:47:47 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-21 22:51:15 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bryan Parkoff"  2008-06-22 11:01:59 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
Steven Hirsch <snhirsc  2008-06-22 17:32:10 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-22 19:06:45 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
Bhopal BillY <nos-pam-  2008-06-21 21:17:41 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-22 00:46:39 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"sfahey" <sf  2008-06-22 00:47:20 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-22 10:46:53 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"sfahey" <sf  2008-06-22 12:05:14 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-22 13:32:26 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Vince Briel" &  2008-06-22 21:53:30 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-22 22:04:29 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
a2aviator@[EMAIL PROTECTE  2008-06-22 17:49:00 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-22 21:17:43 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"sfahey" <sf  2008-06-23 10:11:01 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-23 12:35:53 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
a2aviator@[EMAIL PROTECTE  2008-06-23 09:30:01 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-23 12:46:53 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-23 20:00:06 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-23 20:12:19 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Michael J. Mahon&qu  2008-06-23 13:11:00 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
a2aviator@[EMAIL PROTECTE  2008-06-23 21:33:04 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Michael J. Mahon&qu  2008-06-24 02:06:25 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-24 12:18:00 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Michael J. Mahon&qu  2008-06-24 11:38:04 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-24 14:58:03 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Michael J. Mahon&qu  2008-06-24 20:46:34 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
David Wilson <mcs6502@  2008-06-24 21:17:10 
Re: IIe Keyboard On A II Plus
"Bill Garber" &  2008-06-25 01:59:47 

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