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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: zonaps2 on June 14, 2009, 12:34:42 AM

Title: Keyboard testing Soft?
Post by: zonaps2 on June 14, 2009, 12:34:42 AM

I am testing 2 keyboards I have for my A500 and need to check if the keys are ok.
Is there some software so I can test all the keys?
Maybe in workbench 1.3? I can't find anything.

Please don´t tell me 'open notepad' or something like that 'cause I can't test keys like Function Keys.

thanks

Title: Re: Keyboard testing Soft?
Post by: the_leander on June 14, 2009, 04:08:03 AM

Well for the vast majority of testing something like a notepad would work perfectly adequately. However if you're wanting to test the function keys, I'd suggest running a game that uses them, for instance birds of prey, which uses every key on the board.

Title: Re: Keyboard testing Soft?
Post by: lsmart on June 14, 2009, 07:38:45 AM

Some years ago I wrote a small program in oberon which prints out the keycodes in an intuition message (vanilla and raw) I tested it under AmigaOS3.1 but I think it should run on other versions too.

You should be able to grab the zip (src & binary) here:

http://idisk.mac.com/smertens-Public?view=web (http://idisk.mac.com/smertens-Public?view=web)

Title: Re: Keyboard testing Soft?
Post by: Voyager74 on June 14, 2009, 11:16:42 AM

An application made for OS1.3 was ye' olde KeyMap-Ed.
Besides being able to create Amiga-keymaps,
this will allow you to test all keys.

(It works for latter OS's too)

http://aminet.net/util/misc/kme.lha

Title: Re: Keyboard testing Soft?
Post by: motrucker on June 15, 2009, 12:14:10 AM

I believe that The Advanced Amiga Analyzer will perform what you need. You don't even need the dongle for this - just the software.

Title: Re: Keyboard testing Soft?
Post by: zonaps2 on June 17, 2009, 09:00:38 PM

thanks,
i'll look for those programs.