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Wanted: Amiga Mouse / Keyboard
« on: January 09, 2007, 01:08:00 AM »
Hi,
If anyone has an extra (Amiga) mouse/keyboard and wound like them to endup in good hands, please PM me.
I would prefer an A-4000 keyboard, but I am open to other models.
Thanks
Wizardo
 

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Re: Wanted: Amiga Mouse / Keyboard
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2007, 09:43:49 AM »
How do I PM you?

Do you need a functioning tilde/tab keys?

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Re: Wanted: Amiga Mouse / Keyboard
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2007, 03:50:31 PM »
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How do I PM you?


Hi,
Just click on my user name and you'll see a PM Message button.

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Do you need a functioning tilde/tab keys?


Preferably, a fully functional keyboard, yes.
 Thanks.
Wizardo

 

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Re: Wanted: Amiga Mouse / Keyboard
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2007, 02:30:03 PM »
No one?
 

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Re: Wanted: Amiga Mouse / Keyboard
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2007, 03:30:19 AM »
For those who have broken old laptops w/bad lcd screens and need an amiga kb/mouse/joystick, you could remove the LCD screen and run a DOS-based version of the keyboard/mouse/joystick simulator through an autoexec.bat batch file.  You may not even need a hard drive since the program is less than 16 kilobytes and can be booted from a floppy drive.  That would give you a working keyboard/mouse/joystick almost the same size/weight as an Amiga 4000 keyboard.

I suppose the only problem would be if your laptop takes like a minute to boot up; your amiga may beat it out during boot-up and then you may get one bad keystroke as the software resynchronizes with the amiga keyboard port.

The auction currently is for Windows version, but I can substitute for DOS version if you prefer:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320070160401&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=011


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Re: Wanted: Amiga Mouse / Keyboard
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2007, 05:05:56 AM »
Amigaksi,

I'm using the MK4 to hook up an Amiga mouse/keyboard to a PC, not the other way around. It also controls dedicated floppy drives that can read anything from a C-64 disk to Apple tp old PCs...etc...etc...
It works quite well. Since I'm now using Amiga Forever, I wanted to get direct input to my machine bypassing additional drivers like my current BlueTooth keyboard/mouse. I noticed sometimes it slows things down considerably, and I'm hoping that using a "real" Amiga mouse/keyboard helps in the lag time I'm experiencing now. My mouse acts "drunk" sometimes...and keys are sometimes delayed by several seconds...
Thanks for your responses though! :-D
Wizardo