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Computer Related
Nuts & Volts Magazine (December 2009)

By Jochen Jahn

http://www.nutsvolts.com/index.php?/magazine/article/keyboard_game_interfac=
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http://nutsvolts.texterity.com/nutsvolts/200912/?folio=3D30#pg31

On 8/4/2010 8:24 AM, BOB wrote:
> ivp wrote:
>   =20
>> I've updated the project page
>>
>> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/joecolquitt/pic_keyboard.html
>>
>> If you'd like to look it over please and comment if it needs more in
>> the way of explanation or if you spot any errors and so on
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> *
>> *
>> **********
>> Quality PIC programmers
>> http://www.embedinc.com/products/index.htm
>>
>>     =20
> Way back in the early 1990 two of us were working on something similar
> to this.  Several of us were interested in flight simulators for the
> computer.
>
> This was the days before the programmable joy sticks.  The plan was to
> make a box with buttons on it that were labeled for the function
> (landing gear, flaps, etc.  All the programs used keys on the keyboard
> forthe input. Like "E" for engine start. So by pushing a certain button
> on your box the the PIC would send the proper data to the computer so
> the computer thought the "E" key had been pushed.
>
> Due to health problems I was away from the project for a year.  By then
> the first multi-button joy sticks were entering the market.
>
> BOB
>   =20

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