Very cool! Almost as cool as that 68000 SBC you made awhile back. :)
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On Sunday, February 7, 2021 11:50 AM, John Tsiombikas [email protected]
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> It was indicated by jhall in his fosdem talk earlier today that this
> would be the appropriate place to post this little utility I wrote a few
> years ago, and that it might be of interest to the people here:
> https://github.com/jtsiomb/capsmap
> I usually remap caps lock to something more useful (ctrl) on all my
> systems, and since I've been doing some retrocoding under DOS in the
> past few years, it was annoying me that I didn't have that
> functionality.
> So I wrote this simple TSR to do caps-lock remapping. It basically sets
> up a keyboard interrupt handler which handles capslock keypresses, by
> either changing the BIOS modifier flags or appending to the BIOS
> keyboard buffer (mapping is a compile-time option). For any other key
> event, it just jumps to the original interrupt handler to let the BIOS
> deal with it.
> I placed the code in the public domain, so there shouldn't be any
> licensing issues if you decide this is useful enough to include in the
> FreeDOS distribution.
> Also I'm only ever using it for remapping caps->ctrl, so for me the
> compile-time choice of the mapping is sufficient and I did not have much
> incentive to make it more complicated than that, but if more people are
> interested in using it, I could improve it to make that a command-line
> option. Either way, let me know if you try it and have any feedback.
> Builds with nasm and make, but pre-compiled binaries are included in the
> 1.0 release on github.
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>
> John Tsiombikas
> http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/
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