rec.autos.simulators

by **Rubini** » Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:00:00

i just bought a new keyboard (about 2 weeks ago) cuz i dropped my wheel on
the old one and it died.
so i bought this new keyboard whihc had three totally useless keys which do
nothing apart from one marked "POWER" which puts the pc into standby mode,
which crashes it!. The company have fitted these three buttons in by moving
the pause/break, print screen and scroll lock buttons down so they meet with
the next line of keys. This keyboard is stupid because the power button is
in the same place as the pause button was so everytime i am in a race and
look at how i take a corner in the replay mode and then i exit and press the
pause button to continue driving but hangon the pause button isnt there any
more AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH blue screen of death and hey haev to press reset on
the pc box and it looses my pedal config.

NOW IVE TAKEN A SCREWDRIVER TO MY PC AND RIPPED THE button out.

why are kjeyboard manufacturers so stupid?
some are clever and put the buttons right at the top of the keyboard above
everything and they make the buttons harder to press, why cant other
manufacturers follow suit?

ruby "i hate mechanical touch keyboards"

by **Edward Whit** » Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:00:00

That sux, dude

by **Daxe Rexfor** » Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Why didn't you buy a keyboard with the keys where you wanted them? It's not
like there aren't a variety of them available....

daxe

by **nobo** » Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Microsoft put out a powertoy, that could disable the win9x keys, in
dos games. Maybe they have upgraded that to be used under win9x. I
think it was called "doswinky" or something like that

Lars Gaarde

>On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:30:20 +0100, "Rubinio"

>>why are kjeyboard manufacturers so stupid?

>That does sound really stupid.

>But I still hate the windows 95 keys. The only thing they do for me
>is crash full screen games when I press them by accident. I don't
>think I've ever pressed a win95 key on purpose. They only serve to
>clutter up my ctrl-alt keys (which, ironically, you do use a lot along
>with delete if you're running a microsoft os) and they also make my
>spacebar smaller.

>And what if I want to run Linux? I've looked at keyboards at computer
>stores and I don't know if you can even buy a keyboard anymore without
>these useless, annoying, in the way keys.

>Microsoft will just do anything to get a foothold anywhere. And
>what's irritating is all the sheeple that always go along with it.

>glen

by **Brian Heilan** » Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:00:00

I've always wanted to see a keyboard with a way to disable the CAPS lock
key. I am always hitting it what I don't want to!

So they make a keyboard with a system crash button... glad I didn't get that
one!

by **Philste** » Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:30:20 +0100, "Rubinio"

> >why are kjeyboard manufacturers so stupid?

> That does sound really stupid.

> But I still hate the windows 95 keys. The only thing they do for me
> is crash full screen games when I press them by accident. I don't
> think I've ever pressed a win95 key on purpose. They only serve to
> clutter up my ctrl-alt keys (which, ironically, you do use a lot along
> with delete if you're running a microsoft os) and they also make my
> spacebar smaller.

> And what if I want to run Linux? I've looked at keyboards at computer
> stores and I don't know if you can even buy a keyboard anymore without
> these useless, annoying, in the way keys.

> Microsoft will just do anything to get a foothold anywhere. And
> what's irritating is all the sheeple that always go along with it.

> glen

There's a way to disable this key. TEN had one file that did just that.
It got rid of some of my booting problems. Well, at least that something
TEN did right ;)

The file is called wkeykill.exe and should be available from their
download list.

Philster

by **Mike Wes** » Thu, 08 Jul 1999 04:00:00

My keyboard (Trust Ergo Track) has a key that serves no purpose at all. In
the top right hand corner, next to the caps, num and scroll lock lights
there is a single key marked with a triangle pointing left.
It does nothing. It even says in the keyboard manual somthing along the
lines of 'this key serves no purpose'. So why did they waste the money
putting it in?!

Mike West

3DNow! UK: www.3dnow.freeserve.co.uk

by **Toni Lassi** » Thu, 08 Jul 1999 04:00:00

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:30:20 +0100, "Rubinio"

>i just bought a new keyboard (about 2 weeks ago) cuz i dropped my wheel on
>the old one and it died.

[description of ill-placed special keys]

You know, this reminds me of my old 486 running Apache Longbow. The
game ran OK in VGA, but everytime I pressed F1 to go see the online
manual, it crashed my video card. The problem was that both ESC and F2
were in heavy use in the simulation, so after ump*** inadvertant
crashes I finally shaped a small piece of foil to cover that button.

Worked nicely, and I didn't have to take the keycap away everytime I
wanted to play :)

by **Eldre** » Fri, 09 Jul 1999 04:00:00

>My keyboard (Trust Ergo Track) has a key that serves no purpose at all. In
>the top right hand corner, next to the caps, num and scroll lock lights
>there is a single key marked with a triangle pointing left.
>It does nothing. It even says in the keyboard manual somthing along the
>lines of 'this key serves no purpose'. So why did they waste the money
>putting it in?!

It sounds like the power key on the Macintosh... Maybe they have an adapter
for a Mac?

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