West Vancouver, British Columbia-based Rosetta Technologies Inc is shipping the Rosetta Pilot EZ1000, a programmable chip set enabling personal computer game and joystick manufacturers to integrate intuitive game control functionality into existing and future products cost-efficiently. It is an 8-input programmable controller that can be embedded in multiple devices and is designed for any AT-compatible computer system peripheral device, such as a keyboard, joystick or control pad. Because the personal computer interprets the single action as if it came from the keyboard, the Pilot EZ1000 can send data to any active application, whether it is based in Windows or MS-DOS. It supports up to eight individual keystroke programmable inputs. The keystrokes are stored in a 93C46 1K-bit Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. Since each input can use up to eight words in memory, and since each keystroke typically uses one byte, up to 16 key characters can be assigned to each input. The standard Rosetta Pilot EZ1000 programmable chip set costs $14.56 for 100,000-up.
