Re: Wanted: Info on/SOFTWARE for MUPPET Keys

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Darren (jfk@askjfk.com) wrote:

>Hiyo! I've been striking gold lately and came upon two Muppet
>keyboards for the Apple II (interestingly, one is slightly different
>-- instead of just caps, the lower-case version of each letter is also
>printed and there are a couple more buttons -- any info?).
>
>I'm looking for software for either or both keyboards (they are big,
>blue and plug into the joystick port). It doesn't have to be original.

You can pretty easily write some of your own.  ;-)

Plug one into the game port and poll the paddles.  As you press
a key, note the readings on the paddles that change.  You can
then construct a table that will paddle readings into key presses,
to do with as you choose.

-michael

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