GP32 Chatboard Supprt

[nigelibrown]

Are there any developers either supporting or planing on supporting the Ericsson Chatboard? I would like to hear from you if you are. I would like to put a CD together with software that supports the chatboard.

Purley selfish reasons of course I have started selling chatboards from my site. PayPal payment for them will be finished today hopefully.

GP32 Hardware

 

[mr.mirko]

Mike Morris was so kind sending me one Chatboard, iam adding support
for it in my SDK in the next days...

 

[moz]

my simulator is waiting for the SDK update for the GBAX comp, Im glad it finally got to you

 

[_tyrell_]

Yes, definitely.
What about support for it in a speccy emulator ?
Could be cool, no ?

_tyrell_

http://www.speccyal.be

 

[Pirotic]

do developers get any sort of discount ? or is that just cheeky

would be pretty handy for a project of mine.

 

[skeezix]

I'll be looking into it soon.. (CaSTaway/GP)

jeff

 

[DJWillis]

Looking at adding the chatboard to ScummVM, not my number one thing to do but it looks like adding it is not to hard to do.

 

[mr.spiv]

Yes, definitely.
What about support for it in a speccy emulator ?
Could be cool, no ?

_tyrell_

http://www.speccyal.be

YEAH!

 

[nigelibrown]

I would like to give developers a discount.

If you email me directly and give reasons for a developer discount. Software you have developed? What you are working on now? Copies of the software. And also agree that the software could be part of a compilation CD that could be given away with future chatboards.

I can request a payment via PayPAL that would allow you to receive a developer discount.

 

[_tyrell_]

Ordered a chatboard ...
Hope to get it very soon !

_tyrell_

Btw ... for those interested (and I know there are some among us), I'm trying to do a port of speccyal on the DC... Given that I don't have much free time, it could take long. The option screen is the first thing I'm trying to port and it displays something right now.

 

[Don Miguel]

hmm hmm

sounds interesting 8)

 

[Arda]

the only thing that buggers me is charboard's poor responsiveness.. I'm sure action gamers will be disappointed if those issues are true:

as I heard, it doesn't supports multiple keypresses at once, and even I heard it's only producing events on key release (I mean not when you push a key but release it), I'm not sure this issues are correct, but thats what I heard on #gp32dev...

if this is true, than the keyboard is only usable when playing non-action adventure games and programming (Spectrum Basic rulez)... It's more than enough for me ofcourse...

and first thing I want, /*as I told many times before*/ is a spectrum emu with chatboard support!

 

[_tyrell_]

and first thing I want, /*as I told many times before*/ is a spectrum emu with chatboard support!

Could well happen if I receive my chatboard

_tyrell_


http://www.speccyal.be

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

the only thing that buggers me is charboard's poor responsiveness.. I'm sure action gamers will be disappointed if those issues are true:

as I heard, it doesn't supports multiple keypresses at once, and even I heard it's only producing events on key release (I mean not when you push a key but release it), I'm not sure this issues are correct, but thats what I heard on #gp32dev...

if this is true, than the keyboard is only usable when playing non-action adventure games and programming (Spectrum Basic rulez)... It's more than enough for me ofcourse...

and first thing I want, /*as I told many times before*/ is a spectrum emu with chatboard support!

I would think that would be the developer doing or not doing that rather than the actual hardware. Usually you query the hardware for the status of an individual button's current state. Using common functions to automate the proccess by returning a flag that contains all of the keys that are currently pressed (Like the official SDK for the GP32 does) and you use simple AND / OR logic to query the invidual keys.

I think mr.mirko would be able to shed some light on this, as he is writing functions to use it with his SDK.

 

[mr.mirko]

after the chatboard support in my SDK is ready, and i
ported the first game with chatboard support, i can tell you,
that the chatboard is not for action gamers.
You can not press 2 keys at the same time, and the speed is ( 9600 Boud ) is not the fastest.

If you use the chatbaord for slower games, or text typing, its what the name provide. A chatboard...