New product by individual Computers: Keyrah

[Darrin]

Jen's

Let me see if I get this right.

I have a 42 Plasma TV and a small PC attached for playing games, including Amiga Forever.  This board will go inside the empty A1200 case I have left over from towering my A1200 and allow me to basically use this as a USB keyboard to run WinUAE on the PC using the original A1200 keyboard?  Also, the ports on the side will allow real digital joysticks to be attached?

So I can put this keyboard that looks like an A1200 on my coffee table, attach an old Amiga joystick to the ports, connect it to the PC under the TV with a long USB cable and play Menace or Alien Breed with the feel of "the real thing"?

Put me down for one!

[Darrin]

In fact, I have an old VIC-20 and C64.  One of them would make a good keyboard for a PC C64 emulator.  Better put me down for 2.

[Darrin]

" In addition to that, two digital joysticks can be connected that will act as additional keys (for example cursor keys). The joystick ports show a special strength of Keyrah: The high data transfer speed."

Wouldnt it be better than instead of the Joystick or in addition to the joystick acting as extra keys, that it actually acts as Real Joysticks ort 1 and 2 for WinUAE? if the board doesnt do this....please make it do this. And it will be complete.

I've just been looking at WinUAE and VICE because I've never bothered emulating a digital joystick on WinUAE before, and from what I gather, this board will be perfect.

That switch on the side appaently switches between two keymaps.  So , you have one mapped for PC use and another for when you run UAE.  If I understand it correctly, you should be able to plug a digital joystick into, for example, port 2 on this card and then set the keymap so that joystick2 left = keypad 4, joystick2 right = keypad 6, joystick2 up = 8, etc.  Then you can go into the UAE "input" configuration and set the keyboard settings so that keypad 4 = joystick2 left, keypad 6 = joystick 2 right, etc.  Once you've saved these setting, a joystick plugged into that port should behave under UAE like a digital joystick plugged into port 2 on a real Amiga.  

There's a similar setup for the C64/128/+4/VIC20 emulations under VICE.

At least, that's how I understand it.  I look forward to testing it.   :-)