I'd like to make my Mac Plus more useful/pleasant-to-use. I use an original mac 128 keyboard on it, not the bigger Plus keyboard. So: no cursor keys! I have used a mac (original) keyboard on my modern macs with an adapter. I can program layers/etc and basically set up cursor keys that fire when caps lock is held down (for example). But if I want to do that same on compact mac hardware, I don't have a hardware based thing in between with firmware I can modify.
I was thinking about ForwardDelete68K, which lets you do shift-backspace to get a DEL key. Some programs that modify key input:
I've done a little System 6 app programming in the past, and thought this would make a fun project to try with retro68. Thing is... I don't have the first clue what I'd be doing here. Does anyone have a pointer for the general theory I'd be trying to execute? Or whether this is even practical? I assume it will have some limits, based on how ForwardDelete works (I think only apps that rely entirely on toolkit calls respect it).
I'd like to try caps lock turning +/= into up, [ into left, ] into down, and \ into right. On the 128 keyboard, those are very close to an inverted T, and near the backspace key, which I tend to need a lot.
I was thinking about ForwardDelete68K, which lets you do shift-backspace to get a DEL key. Some programs that modify key input:
- https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/forward-delete-113
- https://xnop.ch/freeware/sk/
- https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/sysutils/beditkey/
I've done a little System 6 app programming in the past, and thought this would make a fun project to try with retro68. Thing is... I don't have the first clue what I'd be doing here. Does anyone have a pointer for the general theory I'd be trying to execute? Or whether this is even practical? I assume it will have some limits, based on how ForwardDelete works (I think only apps that rely entirely on toolkit calls respect it).
I'd like to try caps lock turning +/= into up, [ into left, ] into down, and \ into right. On the 128 keyboard, those are very close to an inverted T, and near the backspace key, which I tend to need a lot.