On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:18:55PM +0100, Colin Piggot wrote: > Stuart Brady wrote: > > Hmm, that's impressive. I'm wondering, is it possible to use the keys > > that the SAM doesn't have? > > I have used a few extra keys on the PC Keyboard - some examples for you: > NumLock triggers SHIFT-EDIT on the Sam, which toggles the function keys to > numbers and vice versa. DELETE does SHIFT-DELETE to delete forwards, HOME > and END act as Inverse On and Inverse Off.
Ooh -- very nice. I'd forgotten about Symbol-Edit. I'm guessing Alt is Cntrl, Alt Gr is Edit, and Ctrl is Symbol? > A few other keys are used as well, which takes care of your next comment > covers.... > > > If keys are used for musical notes, and Shift is used to shift to a > > higher octave, then Shift-2 would really mean Shift-2 rather than > > double-quotes. I don't mean to be pedantic, but it can't be seamless. > > Ah but it is seamless, as I have that base covered too... I did try to think > of most scenarios when designing the PC Keyboard Interface! > > If you need to press SHIFT and a key, such as for the purpose above, the > WINDOWS KEY (START) acts as a "pure shift". So in your example if you need > to press SHIFT-2 on the Sam to get a note in a higher octave, you press > WINDOWS KEY - 2 on the PC Keyboard. I have a few keyboards that don't have logo keys, but that's not really a problem. I may even start looking forward to my SAM's membrane wearing out. :-) For now, I still quite like the SAM's keyboard. Some of the PC keyboards I've got are better, and some are worse. I also don't mind the +2 and BBC keyboards, but the 128k Spectrum's keyboard is worse than rubber keys. Laptop keyboards are the worst, though. Has anyone got any thoughts on built-in keyboards? I've not really used an Amiga or ST, and it's been over ten years since I used an Archimedes with a built-in keyboard. (Would have been about 11 years old...) -- Stuart Brady
