[Coco] CoCo3FPGA keyboard mapping?

[Steven Hirsch]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:


> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>>

>>>> Thanks!  It works fine.  However, what does one do if using an editor or

>>>> other application that requires the tab character?

>>>>

>>>

>>> How do you type a tab on a coco?  maybe the same way?

>>

>> I haven't used an actual CoCo keyboard in quite some time (Cloud-9 PS2

>> adapter on my "real" CoCo).

>>

>> Also, given my interest in perhaps a half-dozen small classic computers it's

>> a bit difficult sometimes to keep things straight.  Sorry to annoy you with

>> my questions, I apologize and will desist.

>>

>

> No annoyance here.  I guess tone is hard to detect in text :)


Well, sometimes I _feel_ like I'm being a pain :-).  I did try to research 
the keyboard mapping for 'Clear' and could not find anything.  Gary's 
writeup for the Digilent board has a few sentences about key assignment 
under BASIC and remarks that OS-9 will be covered later.  Unfortunately, 
I couldn't find "later".

I cannot speak for others, but I personally would like the key mapping 
to be as close as possible to the PC standard.  Perhaps something like 
Scroll Lock or Pause/Break would be a better candidate for 'Clear'.  Then 
Tab could be, err, Tab?

This may be a good excuse to get familiar with the Verilog when Gary 
decides to release it.  For now, no big deal.

Steve


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