3 Mar
2005
3 Mar
'05
2:47 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
It would be hard to create a software only emulator.
The physical keyboard was as important as the software
on this machine. Talking with Jeff, he said that
several efforts have been made to get the keyboards on
PC to work but there are just too many variations on
how the keyboards are handled. It was left too much up to
the builder of the machines. You really need low level
access to key strokes and the layout is wrong as well.
Along with a Canon Cat, I've got an Apple //e with the SwyftCard
(basically the Canon Cat's firmware on a card that turns an Apple //e into
a Cat of sorts). The keyboard has Cat labels on the individual keys to
"re-map" them to the Cat functions:
http://www.siconic.com/computers/Swyft%20Apple%20IIe.jpg
http://www.siconic.com/computers/Swyft%20Card.jpg
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