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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: carvedeye on April 27, 2007, 11:22:47 AM

Title: which keyboard adaptor is best?
Post by: carvedeye on April 27, 2007, 11:22:47 AM

hi every 1 just need to know which adaptor is the best to use for 1200 tower conversion PC-Key 1200 or EZKEY-SE Amiga/PC Keyboard Adapter?.

Title: Re: which keyboard adaptor is best?
Post by: LaserBack on April 27, 2007, 01:07:28 PM

I don't know which one is best but you don't need an adaptor if you have the A1200 motherboard revision 2b
The rev 2b have a connector for any amiga keyboard...(A4000/A2000/cd32)
but if mobo is not rev 2b or your idea is to add a pc keyboard you must buy any adaptor

Title: Re: which keyboard adaptor is best?
Post by: swift240 on April 27, 2007, 01:21:21 PM

I don`t think its a case of what is the best, as they do the exact same thing and thats to allow a PC keyboard to be used on an Amiga.

The thing to remember is the Keymap that is on your Amiga.
Foe example I used to use the GB keymap but as I now use a PC keyboard there are certain keys that are not in the same place as on an Amiga keyboard.
So I use PCKey from Aminet this gives me proper access to all the Amiga keys that you would be used to.

It allows a PC keyboard to be remapped to the Amiga keyboard.
SO as to what is the best I don`t really think matters as they both do the same thing as each other.

Title: Re: which keyboard adaptor is best?
Post by: Fester on April 27, 2007, 07:50:11 PM

Quote

swift240 wrote:
The thing to remember is the Keymap that is on your Amiga.
So I use PCKey from Aminet this gives me proper access to all the Amiga keys that you would be used to.

Thanks for this information. This might actually be useful to me as I use a pc keyboard on my 2000.

I have a Keyra and I could never figure out the ctrl amiga amiga combination on the pc keyboard. Tried everything I could think of.

I'll try PCKey tonight if I can find it.

Fester

Title: Re: which keyboard adaptor is best?
Post by: adonay on April 27, 2007, 09:41:21 PM

get a Lyra keyboard adaptor the only true multi keypress adaptor ...I have tried so many crappy ones but that one is truely best..

Title: Re: which keyboard adaptor is best?
Post by: pyrre on April 27, 2007, 09:59:43 PM

I have the PC-key 1200....
It works great, but i suppose any adapter would do fine...
They do the same job... but the cool part..
windows keys does the same as the amiga keys...
Wondering if I can find some replacement keys...

Title: Re: which keyboard adaptor is best?
Post by: lurkist on April 27, 2007, 10:18:53 PM

It is quite important to get the right one - as mentioned earlier, multiple keypresses on the Amiga are pretty much essential.   I couldn't imagine not being able to CTRL-C to escape etc.
Mine is the one which came with Power Computings's Power Tower (it could be the PC-key 1200, but no reference to a name is in the manual, it is always referred to as "the universal keyboard adaptor" or "the keyboard interface").  It does support multiple presses.

Cheers