Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 4/29/09 3:18 PM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> From: "Lonny Pursell" <atari@bright.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:57 PM
> To: "[MiNT] Mailing-List" <mint@fishpool.com>
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire
> 
>> Wow, that's cool.  Do you plan to release the documentation for that
>> keyboard adapter?  My Hades has the large AT style connector, but I have a
> 
> Sure. I'll release the sources and documentation when I've finished it. It's
> currently a breadboard project, so I need to implement it on a piece of
> stripboard or similar. The hardware is extremely simple, just an Atmel
> Atmega168 microcontroller, a 16Mhz resonator and a resistor. The
> microcontroller can be programmed from a PC or Mac through the TT keyboard
> connector.
> 
>> PS/2 adapter on it.  Would be nice to go back to my TT keyboard, I do miss
>> it so even with some worn off letters.  :-)))
> 
> I don't think you need such an adapter on a Hades. From what I can see from
> various docs, the Hades has a keyboard ACIA with a PS/2 adapter connected.
> So if you disconnect the PS/2 adapter you can connect the TT keyboard
> directly to the ACIA serial pins.

It does seem to have the ACIA chip(s), but I'm not sure where one would
disconnect the ps/2 interface and connect the atari keyboard.  I can e-mail
Fredi and see if he can perhaps tell me exactly where to do this.

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Lonny Pursell    http://www.bright.net/~gfabasic/