Hello HACKERS and CODERS want a cool project? A600 N-PAD!

[leirbag28]

 Wonder why no one has thought of this.

But there must be a way to create a FUNCTION key on the A600 to turn the normal numbers into a NUMERIC keypad just like on a Laptop, along with some software to let you choose which key you want to use as the FUNTION key (perhaps the most useless key or a key combination)  

If its a hardware hack, it should allow it to work in games such as F/A 18 Simulator to change the airial views.

get to hacking! :-)

[motorollin]

There are these:

http://aminet.net/search?query=numeric+600

Doubt they work with hardware unfriendly software - though I wouldn't have thought any software solution would.

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moto

[Speelgoedmannetje]

would it be worthwhile? I think it'd be quite a hassle to make it. It needs a thingy between the mobo and keyboard..

[alexh]

leirbag28 wrote:
Wonder why no one has thought of this.

I wonder why C= never did it. All laptops, even then, had such hardware.

leirbag28 wrote:
If its a hardware hack, it should allow it to work in games such as F/A 18 Simulator to change the airial views.

If that what you want this for, would it not be easier to ask  Wepl or JOTD of WHDLoad to incorporate a key-remapping into that WHDload slave?

That would be cleaner and easier than any hardware hack.

I maybe underestimating the work, but I would imagine it would be a short job (especially for JOTD the author of that slave) to hack in the remapping.

Perhaps such a function could even be incorporated into the core of WHDload and work for all existing slaves?

[leirbag28]

@alexh

That would be a great idea!

it must be possible.