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mborjesson / USB-Mouse-to-Serial

Connect a USB mouse to your retro computer using a Raspberry Pi
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Feature Request: Translate other "modern" hardware #6

Closed texneus closed 1 year ago

texneus commented 3 years ago

Have you considered emulating other modern devices into their "classic" counterparts? The obvious scenario would be a USB keyboard into PS/2 or AT keyboard (I would imagine this requires the GPIO port to send/receive keyboard data to the host), but I'm sure other situations exist.

mborjesson commented 3 years ago

Yeah I have considered it, but I decided I wanted to keep this program simple and not locked to RasPi. I've been playing with idea of adding Gamepad-support for mouse control though just for fun. In the future I might look at creating another app which can use RasPis features for things like this, but I can't say when that would happen.

Thanks for the suggestion!

texneus commented 3 years ago

Your welcome! A separate program might be wiser. Although PS/2 keyboards and AT adapters are still readily available now, I envision a time when, like serial mice, they are both scarce and inferior to modern components (I guess in comparison to a contemporary gaming keyboard less the bling, you could argue we are already there).