| From: | Databug |
| Date: | 8 Sep 2001 at 15:02:26 |
| Subject: | [amigactive] Re: MY new toy ... |
Hello Databug
On 08-Sep-01, you wrote:
D> Hello, All
D> well you lot have been talking about your new toys I shall mention mine. My
D> EZkey XS. I thought I'd mention this as there might still be one or two out
D> there using miggy's and not very happy with their conventional PC kbd
D> adapters. Anyway Fitting was relatively easy except you do need to push it
D> down onto the chip quite firmly. I musn't have done this properly as when I
D> went to switch my miggy on in the evening the hard-drive wouldn't boot
D> (despite having tested everything that morning). However it was soon fixed
D> with a good push using a screwdriver as I couldn't quite reach all the edges.
D> The first thing I noticed was how much more responsive the keyboard was and
D> how multipress was comletely supported. Throughout yesterday I explored the
D> functions of the keyboard. Of course all kbd adapters are slightly diffrent
D> and map the various PC keys to various locations, some more sensibly than
D> others. The EZ key seems good and sensible in most cases to me and it has 4
D> Keymaps that are hardcoded into the chip so theres something there for all
D> keyboards and tastes. You can scroll through the keymaps using the pause key
D> on the PC kbd. By default the standard keymap suits most modern PC Kbds. The
D> ctrl key is the Ctrl key windows are windows. the menu key flicks through
D> open screens wich I thought was quite a good feature. Insert is Help and Page
D> up/down are supported by being mapped to shift down as is home and End. F11
D> and F12 are mapped to numberpad ( ). This means that at least in Opus you
D> could use these as custom keys as those brackets aren't used much anyway. The
D> only quirk I found was with the number pad. In some programs ie. the shell
D> and GoldEd the numberpad defaults to the alternate functions like left right
D> Home etc. But in other programs they function correctly as number keys.
D> Though the Curser functions can be overridden by holding either the Ctrl or
D> Shift key. Another problem I encountered comes in if you don't have one of
D> the plugins that are supported by the EZKey. The EZkey also supports
D> switching to ATX power supplys and switching between RTG and SD/FF output.
D> (Using EZVGA and *Mon) So if you start one of these the Computer just hangs.
D> Still Its not too difficult to access these functions accidently as they are
D> all accessed by the LAmiga RAmiga combinations. Another good feature and
D> apparently unique to the EZKey is the abilty to press a key during bootup to
D> disable Accelerators. However this only seems to work from a cold boot. So my
D> verdict is a good investment even if it is a little expensive. Especially
D> considering that most people will only buy it for the basic ked functions and
D> not all the other gubbins like IR support and such. Thank you for listening
Whoops this was meant to go to another List :)
/me blushes
Regards
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
-- Anon
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