Hello from Gregg C Levine One of the shops where I buy some stuff, sells XBOX support gear, in addition to the thing itself. They sell a third party keyboard for the thing.
And Adam is correct, the connectors do resemble USB ones. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adam Thornton > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Some comments on the new XBox > > On May 12, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Ledbetter, Scott E wrote: > > > My 13 year old 8th grade son runs Linux on his Xbox, and Hercules > > on our > > desktop Linux systems. I'll have to ask him if he ever got around to > > running Herc and MVS on his Xbox. I'm pretty sure he did, but I can't > > keep up with all the neat stuff he does. The biggest pain about > > running > > Linux on the Xbox is the on screen keyboard that you have to use. > > > > It's relatively easy and cheap to graft a plain old USB keyboard to > an Xbox controller tail and have a keyboard for the box. The control > *is* in fact just USB with an extra line, and if you wire the > remaining wires correctly, you have a working keyboard. > > > For anyone thinking running Hercules is too much trouble or too > > hard or > > whatever, I came home from work one day and he had MVS running > > under VM > > under Hercules on Linux. He had gotten all the information about > > how to > > do this from the Internet. When he complained about MVS console > > configuration and figuring out how to get it to work with VM, I > > knew he > > had felt all the pain he ever needed to feel about mainframes. > > > That is *so* cool. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
