Argh, sorry peepz :) This was not supposed to be sent to the mainlinglist...
Ofcourse if anyone else knows more about this he can mail me ^_^. Byte! ~Grauw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurens Holst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 12:38 AM Subject: [MSX] Re: How to converte keyboard matrix data to ASCII? > Hi Daniel! > > How did you solve the problem?? > I am writing an article for the MSX Assembly Page right now, about the key > matrices, and I am interested in how you proceeded. > > Also, I only have 2 keyboard layout tables, one being an international one, > the other being the UK one (they both differ on only 1 field). Do you have > more of them?? > > Thanks in advance, > > > ~Grauw > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Caetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:26 AM > Subject: How to converte keyboard matrix data to ASCII? > > > > > > People, > > > > I'm translating Snatcher to portuguese and then to English. > > At this time, the translation is going very well, and I'll > > release betas as soon as the final programming problems > > finish. > > I found a little problem that I'm not being able to solve. > > The game reads the columns and lines of the keyboard to find > > what key is pressed. It's the only way, since it replaces > > the interrupt. But this is not the point. > > At one place, the game converts the data (line and column > > got on the key matrix) to a character value, based on a > > internal table. This table originaly pointed to Kanji/Hiragana > > characters (Japanese language). I converted them ASCII values > > and it really works... well... in some machines. > > > > The problem resides in the fact the relation > > line/column -> ASCII is NOT defaut. It seems to be different > > on several machines, even if they are from the same country > > and have similar keyboard. > > The result is: in some computers, the keys act as expected > > (when you press the "A" key, the A appears on the screen). > > But on other computers, when you press the "A" key, something > > different appears (say, an "8" is shown). > > > > Once there is no default way to convert a line/colum from > > keymatrix to a ASCII code (the BIOS has a table, but it's > > position is not the same in every computer), I think the solution > > is to preload the proper convertion table in the upper memory (say, > > on the PLAY queue space) and point the game to look there. > > This would be ok IF I knew a way to detect what the hell > > kind of keyboard the machine uses. > > One way to detect it is asking to the user to push some keys, > > but this is very annoying and not compatible with the work I'm > > doing on Snatcher. > > > > I'm writting here in the hope someone know a misterious way > > to detect the keyboard type. > > > > Before someone ask me, I know the byte 0x002C of ROM says me > > the keyboard type. But this means nothing. On computers with > > the same value for this byte, the answer of the key matrix was > > different one from another. )^= > > > > BTW, Snatcher is non-standard in many aspects. This is one of > > them. Konami never thought to release this game outside its > > county (this explains why they do not worried about differente > > keyboard types than the japanese one). > > > > I hope someone can help me, and I can continue the translation. > > > > Thanx in advance. > > > > Daniel Caetano > > > > PS: The actual stage of translation is somewhat more advanced than > > Oasis was. But as soon as this problem is fixed, the translation > > will not be hard, since I had developed several programs that > > automatically replaces the texts and relocate them when they > > do not fit in the space. > > > > > > []'s > > > > Daniel Caetano > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ..."A necessidade de criatividade e' o que contribui para a > > mudanca. A criatividade mantem o criador vivo." (Frank Herbert) > > http://soulmatrix.dynodns.net/ - This OS/2 system uptime is 0 days 05:42 > hours. > > > > > > -- > > For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html > > _______________________________________________ > MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx > _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
