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1. USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA SERIAL
2. USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA CODE
3. USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA TRIAL
4. USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA PC

Programmers spend a lot of time formatting rather than typing. Right now I have to either move my right hand or pinky-out to the arrow keys. I think having some cursor keys down there would save wrist when navigating text.

USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA PC

I looked at the wear on my PC spacebar and thought it'll be safe to shorten it quite a bit, like on Japanese keyboards. Dots and such easily get lost in the noise. but I don't want to overload the keys either. This left the keys near Return a bit barren. They could be printed using red to lessen confusion/noise. I've included a number of accents/diacritics and after moving them around a bunch I decided to go for consistency and put them all as Alt-characters on the number keys. I've always wanted those directly marked on a keyboard as I can never remember the key-codes or what Alt key they're on.Ĭertain graphical characters are really difficult to show using lowrez fonts, like ¾ fractions and ® registered trademark.

USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA SERIAL

If I'm not mistaken, the A1200 used a 68HC05 microcontroller and serial communication. There's a limit with USB of a few simultaineous keys + modifiers, but some keyboards pretend to be two keyboards to get around this. I cobbled together a microcontroller (32U4) driven USB keypad once. Since the keyboard might be out of commission I'm thinking a visual mouse interface might work. With a keycap puller and keyboard layout program it might be fun to customize my A770 layouts (keymaps) using an editor of some sort. Other than that, the counts are somewhat close to elsewhere with 0 1 E etc.

USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA CODE

X and Y might be a bit more common in code than general writing. BlitzMax can use A$ and F# BASIC style variables but I don't use that declaration feature. BASIC is less pedantic than C so it doesn't need and () and cluttering up the code, so those are less common here. I wrote a thing and ran a few of my Famicube source files through it. I've seen letter frequency tables of C, JS etc, but not BlitzMax/BASIC.

Slightly updated version of it on the A770 concept later on. L and J are a bit unfortunate but otherwise the positions aren't too bad. I think I'd like the ABC (MNOP rather) one though.

USING A GERMAN KEYBOARD LAYOUT ON AN AMIGA TRIAL

It's hard to give new layouts a fair trial when one is so used to the arbitrarily established QWERTY and can't really shift just like that. I believe the long dash is actually the underscore.Other messy keys makes it harder to see what dashes and dots are low and high.Numbers on number row are too small and the keys are very busy looking.I think there are a few diacritic/accent dead-keys but it's hard to spot them.Baffling amount of duplicate characters.I'm thinking Amiga 600 form factor.įor reference, here's my A500 keyboard.

It shouldn't be a brick with cherry switches and "layers". The keyboard has to be kind of international, supporting English, Swedish, German, Spanish, the latter via "dead-keys" which can put various accents/diacritics on characters. So, I want to design my own keyboard and the opportunity to elaborate presented itself with the escalation of this Amiga project. When modern laptop keyboards implement a compact layout they often use lots of modifier keys or scatter things about. Still, it's nice to have the math and programming characters available without relying on modifier keys. Special needs! It really takes up desk space too. Also, I'm primarily a BASIC programmer who doesn't use the numpad a lot because I'm lefthanded and it's too far off. The other keys are in awkward positions for me too. Maybe it's just because I can't touch-type. I've never been comfortable with QWERTY keyboards.