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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga keyboard...
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- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:10:24 GMT
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- Adam Burns (adburns@awod.com) wrote:
- : Reg Martin wrote:
- : > wrists get seriously cramped. The natural keyboards are a joy to use IMHO.
- : > I would really like to see AT use PC keyboards in the future though, simply
- : > because there is such a huge selection of them, and they can be had for
- : > next to nothing...
- :
- : I am surprised that there isn't more support for this very idea. At
- : one time there was an IBM-PC keyboard adapter cable sold, which
- : allowed Amiga users to connect IBM-AT (101 key) keyboards to their
- : Amiga's. The left and right Amiga keys were re-mapped to F-11 and
- : F-12. (Granted, not as convenient a location...) I believe this
- : same sort of hack was (is) used to connect keyboards to CD-32 units
- : equipped with the SX-1 module. Since the new Microsoft keyboard has
- : the specialty keys already, it would seem a simple proposition to
- : re-map them as Amiga keys.
-
- There are still such adaptors. At least one of them (called Switch-Hitter
- I think) does allow you to remap the Amiga keys to the Windows keys on
- the Natural keyboard.
-
- Reg Martin
-