CompuServe Messages

Michael: Yes, it maps the Amiga keys properly. You have to get the Amiga keycaps from Northgate for about $16.00. The only 'lock' key that works in this setup is the shiftlock. There are also several 'dead' keys, and the only way to make them work is with a special Northgate keymap, of which there are a couple of them floating around. There are actually 2 different series of keyboards, the older style ones with the DIP switches located on the back side of the kb, of which the highest rev is 6.05, and has some problems with accelerated Amigas, and needs the ticknorthgate program in the startup-sequence to wakeup the kb. This makes booting off of game floppies a real pain in the rear! The newer style keyboard has the DIP switches underneath a small trapdoor on the top of the kb, and it's ROM revision is 7.0x, and with this one the problem of the kb not syncing to the Amiga is gone. Normal policy at Northgate is if a user has a problem with a keyboard while it under warrantee they replace it with the same version kb that they originally had, but I was able to convince them to upgrade me from an old style kb to the newer more compatible one. // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale