| From: | Brad Rogers |
| Date: | 14 Oct 99 at 18:58:18 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Amiga keyboard |
From: "Brad Rogers" <brad@pianosa.freeserve.co.uk>
On 13-Oct-99 20:42:11, Bill Eaves wrote something about [amigactive] Re: Amiga keyboard to amigactive,
Hello Bill,
>The Alt is Alt here and the Windoze the Amiga. They map correctly. But if
>you look at a PC keyboard the W keys are outside the Alt keys from the
>space bar. On the other A1200 which still has the original KB, the A keys
>are next to the space bar and the Alt outside.
Right, got you. That's not mapping issue, but a layout issue. Not really
a lot we can do about that, more's the pity.
>If you feel the keys say when watching a Pinball game, I did find I was
>pressing the wrong ones until I got used to the PC keyboard ;)
I have to say, it took me some time to adjust, too. Mainly because the
keyboard I now use is about half the size of the Amiga one.
>No keymap helps either as this is a hardware difference - I checked with
>Ateo to see if it was possible but thought not. It was worth a shot though
Short of blowing a custom PROM (or whatever the device is), it wouldn't be
easy. Not worth it for a one off, I suppose.
Also, it takes much longer to get up north, the slow way.
Clever Trevor; Ian Dury & The Blockheads
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