Some keys on Amiga Keyboard are not working (A1200NG, OS3.2.3)

[birko70]

Hi!

I'm new to the A1200NG. And I have a question and hope someone can help me:
I have running AmigaOS 3.2.3 on my 1200NG. My keyoard is a new mechanical keyboard from Amigastore.eu built for real Amiga 1200 with US layout.

Problem: the backslash key is not working or, at least, nothing happens when I press on that key.

If I switch layout of the keyboard, for example, to german then I see characters on screen when pressing the \ | key. But neither with US nor with GB layout. Also the "(" and the ")" keys on the numberpad aren't working.
A problem is that I don't have an Amiga 1200 with OS3.2.3 to test the keyboard on real hardware.

Does anybody has an idea? Any help is welcome... because otherwise I can't use and create blitzbasics custom types 

[birko70]

You may need to perform the same thing in the Amiberry configuration, it's based on WinUAE.
I'll have to check if the number pad bracket keys are a problem too, I don't typically use those.

That sounds interesting. Could you tell me where I find the configuration file of the A1200NG? I didn't even get any documentation with my A1200NG board  .

[birko70]

Another in the "I don't have working real A1200 hardware to test if my 30 odd year old keyboard is knackered" club.

My Amiga keyboard is a brand new one  .

I have a (real) A500+ (over 30 years old). But as I know the keyboard is not compatible (or at least the cables arn't)?! 

[birko70]

I tested the AmiBench system and the preinstalled writing app. But on both there are the keys missing.
Next I wonder: in the settings of the A1200NG there is a section to select a keyboard. But there are only PC based keyboards. But this \ | Key, which lays left from DELETE on an Amiga Keyboard is not existing on PC keyboards. So, seems to be a problem of the Emulator.
The missing keys are: Backslash \, the pipe |, and both of the brackets ( and ) on the numberpad. All those keys are "hidden" keys on PC layout keyboards.

Maybe, Amigakit should provide an Amiga keyboard configuration?!

I'll try to create a new key mapping file in OS3.2.3 which moves 'backslash' and 'pipe' to other keys that are not so important. For this I found a tool on aminet.net.

Update:
I tried out several thing to fix that, even with an AI Pro account. But nothing worked. These keys (backslash, pipe, ( and ) on number pad) are simply not there.
But, on that original Amiga keyboard there is one key without a print (right from left shift). I could reassign it with the EditKeys tool. At least I now have a \ and a |