The X500 Evo mechanical keyboard and custom black Amiga keys

[TheDaddy]

Hi everyone,

Here you can find my final set of black, with white laser etching, Amiga key caps set for mechanical keyboards.

I've redesigned the left and right Amiga keys completely, the right one in particular is as close as I could make it to the original. Reworked Shift, Alt, Tab, Enter, Return arrow and other symbols. Increased the font size for all the letters, redesigned the dollar sign. Moved Help under Screen Lock. I'm very happy with the results.

This set will be present on the X500 Evo cases. Please remember to state the colour of your keyboard.

Also showing a combination of black and beige.

The LEDs behave in the same manner as the LEDs under the beige and white keys.

Price to be announced, they are expensive so the more we order the less we pay.

For those who want a USB standalone keyboard with my Amiga keys in black or white or black/white/beige these are the options:

1) You order just the full key caps set and then apply them to your mechanical keyboard these should be compatible with keyboards using Cherry MX switches (Blue, Red, Brown, Black), keyboard such as:

Filco, CM QuickFire Rapid, Das Ultimate and Ducky

2) you order a complete keyboard.

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Thank you.

[Duce]

Look great!  Shame the Enter key is different than the one on my Corsair Vengeance K90 mechanical keyboard or I'd be all over this.

Keep up the good work, just keeps getting better.

[TheDaddy]

Look great!  Shame the Enter key is different than the one on my Corsair Vengeance K90 mechanical keyboard or I'd be all over this.

Keep up the good work, just keeps getting better.

Thank you.
I'll check if they're compatible with the Corsair Vengeance K90 keyboard.

[Cass]

Also showing a combination of black and beige.

The LEDs behave in the same manner as the LEDs under the beige and white keys.

Wonderful

2) you order a complete keyboard.

I`d be interested in a white complete KB (Red Cherry I suppose)
Waiting for pricing details and estimated time for ordering units.

[Akiko]

Would it be difficult to adapt the LED colors on this keyboard? I'd rather like CD32 matching Red

[Lurch]

I'm liking the black and white combo. :-) Red leds when be awesome.

[TheDaddy]

On this keyboard model the LEDs are soldered so it would be just a question of unsoldering the green and putting the red in. I've also noticed that all the other keys have also a space for an LED.

[rewlako]

Nice, but the CTRL key is in the wrong spot!

[mfilos]

No it's not.
Don't forget that this is a PC keyboard not an Amiga one. It just has the Amiga keys instead of the Windows logo ones for means of nostalgia and emulator fun.

[TheDaddy]

A quick off topic...

All the LEDs (sleeved and with the colour coded heatshrink) to be used in the X500 Plus and the X500 Evo cases have arrived:


Here

[rewlako]

No it's not.
Don't forget that this is a PC keyboard not an Amiga one. It just has the Amiga keys instead of the Windows logo ones for means of nostalgia and emulator fun.

Then what's the point of Amiga keys if the layout doesn't match the original?  If you want it to look like an Amiga, then make it so... don't quit halfway through.

Besides, I think the CTRL keys is much more conveniently placed on the Amiga than on a PC keyboard.  The pinkie instinctively rests on the CTRL key, making it easy to hit CTRL+C, CTRL+D, etc.  Who uses the Caps Lock anyways?

(Disclaimer: I don't mean to be rude, I'm just an "all the way or nothing" type of person)

[TheDaddy]

Then what's the point of Amiga keys if the layout doesn't match the original?  If you want it to look like an Amiga, then make it so... don't quit halfway through.

Besides, I think the CTRL keys is much more conveniently placed on the Amiga than on a PC keyboard.  The pinkie instinctively rests on the CTRL key, making it easy to hit CTRL+C, CTRL+D, etc.  Who uses the Caps Lock anyways?

(Disclaimer: I don't mean to be rude, I'm just an "all the way or nothing" type of person)

There is no quitting half way through. These custom key caps were designed exclusively for the X500 Evo case and it happens that by ordering a few extra sets some people will be able to apply them to their own, already "PC standard" USB mechanical keyboards or buy a complete USB mechanical keyboard with the set from me. This way they can use a PC running WinUAE, MOS, AOS4 etc...

I never had the intention of making a replica of the Amiga keyboard, why would I want to do that when there are hundreds of mechanical keyboards out there screaming for a high quality Amiga key caps set?


This a complete set of Amiga keys for a, let's call it, generic, mechanical keyboard. You get the set in white and beige or black and apply it to your choice of mechanical keyboard (model compatibility applies).
That's all.

Just look at those "A", the Enter, Shift, Return keys and smile...

[TheDaddy]

It looks like the majority are interested in the Cherry MX Blue (clickety) switches.
What do you think?
Check youtube for the different types of Switches (Red, Blue, Black and Brown).
I do like the Black or Red ones myself.

[Cass]

Just checked all of them again (reviews and youtube videos), and I`m more of a Blue switch type.
So, full Cherry MX Blue KB for me with white & beige keys.
Is it possible to have a Red Led on CapsLock?

[TjLaZer]

Can someone explain how you can order a keyboard, and Amiga key sets?  You have to order the keyboard and Amiga keys separate?