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Trouble is that when you tell people to run an installer from the boot on the supplied disk, they put the disk into the disk drive and reset the system !! They forget about the need for a SuperHermes driver - we could supply it with the installer disk, but the problem is that what happens if the user uses a different keyboard interface??
Well AFAIK except the ABC all other keyboards in wide use with Auroras have no drivers so just loading the sH driver (a mere 5 K or so) wouldn't be a problem
Maybe it should be added to smsq/e as of normal - not sure how we can put it with an auto-installer in case the user jas another keyboard interface - or is there a simple test we could put in the boot program to check if superhermes is present, in which case, load the ipcexts. No idea if it would be a problem if they use ABC Keyboard or Keyboard 90 and we just installed the ipcexts anyway...
I tend to load the sH drivers everywhere as I never know when I am going to need them. Luckily they are a great piece of software and as such they never interfere with anything!
See above?
I've never tried it with Keyboard 90 (I've only seen one in my lifetime) and I have only seen the ABC one in ads... however if it doesn't crash with QPC, QXL, QemuLator (which is very quirky re: the keyboard), uQLx, Q40, Q60 or a standard (non sH equipped that is) QL why would it crash with a Keyboard 90 or ABC (then of course you never know)
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Yes, ok for those with a romdisq, but not every user has one...
Exactly the reason why they should buy one :-) (Tony I want the cheque mailed tomorrow ;-) hehe)
Would not be a problem if the necessary module was linked into the main smsq/e initialisation code at configuration time.
The keyboard driver of sH doesn't interfere with the keyboard translation of SMSQ/e as I have seen
More of a problem if we had to include ipcexts in the boot file for the installer and also on non smssq/e systems of course
Not really as it really doesn't interfere with anything at least to my (so far) knowledge as I said. As a matter of fact all TF products that I have are the only hardware products for "standard" QLs that work no matter what. The sH works (although Tony said it wouldn't) minus a couple of legs (GND ones too!), the software never misses a beat (or a keystroke), the romdisq has performed flawlessly even having connected it upside down two or three times (okay more than that) which is a BIG NO NO and consider this... all my TF stuff have travelled the atlantic and have been in several places transported in "not that ideal" of conditions... let me put it another way. If Tony had seen what I have done to them, he would refuse to sell anything to me ever again ;-)
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