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New Amiga Keyboard
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Hi,

Someone has emailed me asking if it would be possible to make a few standalone USB keyboards based on the design used in my X500-F to use with existing Amigas.

These would look more or less like this one:

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/X500-F.htm

but without the switches obviously, the logo would change to whatever we agree to change it to:

For example:
Amiga
X1000
AmigaOne X1000
nothing
or whatever you fancy.

There could also be space for a sticker or maybe an engraved boing ball if Hyperion are ok with that.



Anyone interested in this?

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@TheDaddy

Do you have a lawyer on retainer?

Ok. Going back to my happy place now.
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@BigBentheAussie

>>Do you have a lawyer on retainer?


??

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@TheDaddy

Perfect. If you and your partners are able to

- produce a german keyboard layout,
- introduce the two "A" keys,
- make a "Help" instead of "??? (scroll lock)" key

and make the logo

- "nothing" and

and make a black keyboard..

...then count me as a customer!

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@cha05e90

If there is enough interest then I can look into it.

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@TheDaddy

The idea over from aw.net (a localized plastic bag with keycaps) sounds nice...

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@TheDaddy

I want one but must have Amiga 'A' keys and a nice boing ball logo on it would be great..oh US format


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@BigBentheAussie

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BigBentheAussie wrote:
@TheDaddy

Do you have a lawyer on retainer?


Don't worry about that, Hyperion are still doing the washing up as their Lawyers from the Amiga case. Only about 20,000 more dishes to wash then they can Sue TheDaddy.

I think they would be reasonable about it, its not exactly a conflict of interest.

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@A1200

>>Don't worry about that, Hyperion are still doing the washing up as their Lawyers from the Amiga case. Only about 20,000 more dishes to wash then they can Sue TheDaddy.

I think they would be reasonable about it, its not exactly a conflict of interest.



Ah...that is what it meant...

I better ask first then if it's ok to use the Boing Ball

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@TheDaddy

I'd be interested. (UK)

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@TheDaddy

as an addition to the new X1000 i'd of course be interested aswell

can you make it cordless?
can you make a matching mouse? (cordless)
can you make them black and silver?


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@TheDaddy

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@BigBentheAussie
>>Do you have a lawyer on retainer?
??

See how far you'll get selling something with a Hyperion owned trademark, even if it is a peripheral for their (or their partner's) actual machine. That's what you'll need the lawyer for if you go ahead and sell it without getting permission from Hyperion, even with the community's support.

Ok. Going back to my happy place now.
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@BigBentheAussie

Thanks for the words!

I'll check with Hyperion.

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@Raziel

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can you make it cordless?

Do you realise that you need a transmitter/receiver and OS4 needs to handle it?
I don't think TheDaddy will build 1 million unit to make such things possible

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@Elwood
OS4 would treat a cordless version like any other USB keyboard. Personally I would never be interested in a non-cordless keyboard ever again as I have used a cordless one for years with AmigaOS4.

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@Elwood

As Troels said, you don't necessarily need software support. Some keyboards use bluetooth and require a bluetooth stack on the computer to work, which is a no-no on the Amiga at the moment... But other wireless keyboards have a receiver which, to the computer, just shows up as a normal, wired keyboard.

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@Daedalus

Ok, but using one already produced by a major company and to produce one are 2 different matters

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@Elwood

Oh, absolutely! The cost would probably be prohibitive, but that would be the only holdback really, compatibility wouldn't.

Where I work, we produce machines which sell at a rate of one per week if it's busy - plenty of custom parts in there which makes them pretty darn expensive. As it happens though, there are two of them in Lyon

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Just my 2 ot dents, but I'd only accept cordless if it was on continuous recharge, maybe using the energy of the keypresses (no idea what to use for a mouse)...

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@Thematic
how often do you change batteries in your keyboard/mouse?

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