Date   : Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:22:50 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: (no subject)

"Ian Wolstenholme" wrote:
> It wonder if it was with these applications in mind that Acorn made the
> Master 128 boot up correctly without a keyboard connected, whereas
> the BBC B won't.
 
With no keybaord present the B thinks that all keys are being
pressed, so it thinks Ctrl-Shift is being pressed and pauses the
display. I tried to work out a hardware way of overcoming this as
I have a keyboardless Beeb working as a mail/printer server. I did
it in software instead with a small bit of ROM code, see
http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/BBC/Keyboard
 
I'm sure there must be a way of doing it. Maybe tying PA7 to 0v.
 
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