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Every time I see anything about the varieties of ST, it gives me PTSD over the woeful keyboard. It was like a trampoline made of fudge. This says that the keyb
by b800h 1y ago
Every time I see anything about the varieties of ST, it gives me PTSD over the woeful keyboard. It was like a trampoline made of fudge.
This says that the keyboard on the Mega ST was better. And yet still not good enough. Egads, that ST mess was a terrible keyboard.
- hashmash 1y agoThe main problem with the keyboard was the non-standard size of the kepcaps. The standard distance between keycaps is 0.75 inches, and the standard top width is 0.5 inches. The Atari ST keycap distance is standard, but the top width is 0.625 inches. Because of this, if your finger isn't exactly centered over the top of the key, it hits the adjacent key too, leading to key jam.
- whobre 1y agoWell, my first computer was a 48k ZX Spectrum, and after that experience Atari’s keyboard looked like heaven. Still liked the Speccy better…
- rjsw 1y agoThe Mega keyboard was good, comparable to a current mechanical one.
- cmrdporcupine 1y agoMega ST keyboard is Cherry MX switches. Good quality. I have an adapter on mine that converts it to USB and I can use it on a modern computer. Though I never do. Mainly because it's got Ctrl/Alt[Meta] but nothing I could map to Hyper/Super. Mega STe and TT reverted to terrible mushy rubberdome.