On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 at 17:12:21, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: <ZY93KED8S73WTTRZUHGUR2WB7KI4Z05.3dcc36c5@quantumcentral>)
>I got two Crayola Tablets (they are serial) one for my daughter's
>killer QL system to
>draw on TV (and avoid the mess) and one for my Q40... It works just
>fine with my
>regular QL as an IPC mouse (trouble is no DOing allowed but that's no
>problem for
>me)...
That is via superHermes?
I remember buying a tablet mouse in Boston just before a QL show, and
actually trying it out for the first time during a talk I was giving at
the show. It worked fine.
I reckon anything that works through a standard PC serial port (without
PC drivers for basic functions) will work on sH mouse port.
I went to some trouble to get it to accept std RS232, despite the fact
that most mice will work on TTL.
>Preliminary specs for the toy:
>
>SGC / Aurora / RomDisQ or QubIDE/CF card for software updates
>Minerva MK II for I2C (see Lego) connectivity
I can see no basic problem with letting you use the pcb design on the
motherboard. It needs a GAL of course.
It would be up to Lau though, who is the sole representative of the
original design team.
>Since I haven't had an Aurora with a Minerva Rom so far I still don't
>know if the
>extra modes can be invoked like with SMSQ/E (with direct hardware
>access) but I
>am getting there :-)
They can't, but Lau said it was not too difficult to do.
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