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Keyboard On the V4

Pitteloud Stephane
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 69
15 Jan 2019 20:39


Hi, just a quick video to show you something cool :
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John William

Posts 563
16 Jan 2019 00:03


Ooh jeee I wonder if there is a quick video to show us something cool? - rolls eyes -


Mike Kopack

Posts 268
16 Jan 2019 00:36


Nice so you have it working with an Amiga keyboard hooked up via a Keyrah V2b!  Should make the purist crowd happy.


Nixus Minimax

Posts 416
16 Jan 2019 08:05


Mike Kopack wrote:

Nice so you have it working with an Amiga keyboard hooked up via a Keyrah V2b!  Should make the purist crowd happy.

The good thing about this is that it will make it much easier to put a V4 into an Amiga shell. But I would prefer a much smaller variant of the adapter with just the Amiga connectors. I mean, this thing is almost as big as the V4!


Pitteloud Stephane
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 69
16 Jan 2019 08:11


There is at least one other smaller variant:
EXTERNAL LINK  But, this one does not work on the V4 yet, I tested it.


Captain Zalo

Posts 71
16 Jan 2019 09:17


Pitteloud Stephane wrote:

There is at least one other smaller variant:
  EXTERNAL LINK  But, this one does not work on the V4 yet, I tested it.

Stephen Jones is making a metal casing for Amiga 500 and 1200 keyboards and a keyrah.
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I personally prefer using a standardized PC keyboard with Cherry switches or buckling spring and Amiga keycaps tbh. Having the option of using an original keyboard is awesome.


Ian Parsons

Posts 230
17 Jan 2019 09:12


Using a standard PC keyboard is a little less 'Amiga'. One of the things i dislike about using WinUAE is having a PC keyboard instead of an Amiga one.

Kipper2k has designed Amiga layout keyboards using Cherry MX switches and has spoken about doing a USB version.

It's a little disappointing that the V4 doesn't include an Amiga 500 style keyboard header. If I can ever afford it I will probably go for the accelerator version (the A500 is then mostly a keyboard/mouse input interface). I would prefer to use a PC mouse though, I wonder if that will be possible at boot using the USB connectors on the V4 accelerator or if an external USB/PS2 mouse to Amiga DB9 adaptor will still be needed.


Mike Kopack

Posts 268
17 Jan 2019 15:25


Ian Parsons wrote:

Using a standard PC keyboard is a little less 'Amiga'. One of the things i dislike about using WinUAE is having a PC keyboard instead of an Amiga one.
 
  Kipper2k has designed Amiga layout keyboards using Cherry MX switches and has spoken about doing a USB version.
 
  It's a little disappointing that the V4 doesn't include an Amiga 500 style keyboard header. If I can ever afford it I will probably go for the accelerator version (the A500 is then mostly a keyboard/mouse input interface). I would prefer to use a PC mouse though, I wonder if that will be possible at boot using the USB connectors on the V4 accelerator or if an external USB/PS2 mouse to Amiga DB9 adaptor will still be needed.

I think that's the point though of this video - use a Keyrah v2b to connect an 1200 or A600 keyboard - to the system it looks like a USB keyboard. Just gotta put it all into some sort of a case. The Keyrah is like $40-50 US.

Personally I don't mind the various keyboard options... My hope is to be able to use one of the slimline Mac keyboards with a USB passthrough to a USB mouse (Mac keyboards have built in 2 port hubs, so you can link the mouse off the keyboard). Obviously it's all a question of whether the USB ports on the Vampire will support the keyboard/mouse in question. (Happy to be a guinea pig for this!)

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