First post, by radiance32
Hi all,
I'm not very knowledgable about MS-DOS and drivers / low-level system architecture etc...
I'm sure at least some of you know about serdaco's ps2serial, an active adapter that translates PS/2 mouse protocol into RS-232 serial microsoft mouse protocol,
so people can hook up modern PS/2 mice to retro PCs with only an RS-232 port.
I was wondering if it would be possible to, from a software point of view, do the same but for a PS/2 keyboard.
I'm sure making the hardware and firmware would'nt be an issue,
but is it possible to create a driver or TSR for MS-DOS that can implement the keypresses received from the device on the RS-232 port.
Furthermore, would it be possible to do this on a pre 386 type machine, eg an XT 8086/186 or 80286 CPU equipped machine.
I'm just researching the possibility of creating a gamepad interface that connects to the RS-232 port and can be configured to emulate certain keypresses so
MS-DOS games that only support the keyboard can be played with a gamepad, and it has to be with an RS-232 device as it would be for laptops and palmtops, aswell as normal desktop PCs...
Can't use the parallel port as this port would be in use with a serdaco OPL3LPT or S2P or similar sound card to provide sound or the DOS game being played, so only RS-232...
Or, if you know of any RS-232 MS-DOS gamepads or adapters for one, please let me know! big thanks in advance 😉
Thanks for any feedback!,
Radiance
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