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Title: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: keropi on June 23, 2006, 08:17:42 PM

I've heared that some keyboard converters do not allow simultaneous keystrokes, is the elbox pc-key 1200 one of them??? i intend to use it with an A4000 keyboard...
thanx!  :-D

Title: Re: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: doctorq on June 23, 2006, 08:50:33 PM

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I've heared that some keyboard converters do not allow simultaneous keystrokes, is the elbox pc-key 1200 one of them???

Yes.

Title: Re: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: CLS2086 on June 23, 2006, 09:09:28 PM

Yes (I know, I have one ...)

Title: Re: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: pVC on June 23, 2006, 09:19:45 PM

Yes, I had some problems with pc-key 1200 and a4000T keyboard. Arrow keys didn't work simultaneous, so it made some games more difficult... and for example shift-ramiga-s combination didn't work.. then the whole adapter broke down and I had to buy new one. Bought Lyra instead and it works like a charm. Only downside is that had to buy PC keyboard for it.

Title: Re: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: lurkist on June 23, 2006, 09:32:08 PM

Seriously?!  You can't even do a Ctrl-C to escape or quit?
Ditch it and buy a real one!
Mine's the EZ-key from Eyetech (possibly no longer trading, search for 2nd hand) and it works fine.

Title: Re: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: x56h34 on June 23, 2006, 09:42:57 PM

Yeah, Ctrl-C won't work. I've discovered that when I tried to close availp96 utility from shell. It can only be closed like that, and with Elbox's PC key you can't do much about it. :-(

Title: Re: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: pVC on June 23, 2006, 10:09:04 PM

ctrl-c and most that kind of combinations worked fine here. It was only some certain combinations which didn't... can't remember if I ever needed any other combination which wouldn't worked besides those I mentioned :)

Like that ramiga-s worked in ced (search forward), but shift-ramiga-s didn't work (search for...).

Title: Re: Does the elbox a1200 keyboard adapter allow multiple simultaneous keystrokes?
Post by: AmigaMance on June 23, 2006, 11:52:51 PM

 I have a lyra adaptor and it works beautifully.