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old64scener: and that would make it perfect to play arknanoid as well :)

Nitro: I have one. Which is why I want that keyboard for my other computer. I still haven't found anything that compares to thinkpad keyboards, not even the DiNovo I used at the office (which is pricey!).

Alumuum: At least you can switch it off. Everyone with a Thinkpad does that anyway.

alumuum: I seriously can't remmeber the last time I needed to use the numpad on ANY computer. i have no idea why or how they got there but they really need to be gone from kbs already, imo :p

the direction/arrow keys are quite useful though...not the ones on the numpad...the other seperate ones

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Has never once choked on the key presses while playing chords in trackers or when 4 guys hunt each other down in some shmup.

The thinkpad has weened me off the numpad but after working at the post office (to pay off my first computer when i was 16) i saw the numpad as the only part of the keyboard for EVER inputting numbers. Plus combined with ms calc it gives you a fast interface(if you worked for a year at the post office).

Doom, yeah i can switch off the touchpad, but it will still be there, looking at me, taking up half my desk.

Looking around the internets for ibm trackpoint keyboards i found some models i never came across before. Some things to think about they are.

Numpad:
*) Winamp
*) The * key for no$gmb
*) Playing FF7
I think that's it for me.

alumuum: i'll trade the Post Office this...



...for the extra5 inchs of desk space ;)

real teak wood...the keys too!

you have to admire my url copy'n'paste skillz! :)

@raina: you have exactly the same keyboard as I, excellent keyb! :)

Something that was not appararent on my picture there is that I sawed off the capslock key and exchanged the capslock and the ctrl keys.

Also. I do own a X-arcade however I wish I got a sanwa-made-with joystick instead. The x-arcade is somewhat imprecise, I find.

Currently a mixture between those 2 -- German layout, silver label, no LEDs, proper enter button, black detachable cord -- it's nice, fluffy and only 10 months younger than I am :)



and

Might be exchanged against this one tho, depending on the clickyness and the overall feeling.

keops:the arkanoid thing was more of a dial that would spin and not also do the up/down/left/right of a normal joystick, but the snk one would click 8 ways as you turned it and you could still move around. if that makes sense?

_-_-__ : i find the diagnoals a headache if i play it using a console/adaptor. It's been a long time since I used it with my pc not sure about the sanwa joystick, i'd rather not open my xarcade.

Commodore : that pic reminds me of the people that take people who take a photo of behind their monitors and use them as a desktop, camouflage style.

ok heres another one, ok so its not a keyboard.. but i remember my friend had one years ago, also handy for hypersports =)



and ofcourse the classic old faithful indestructable.

Strangely enough, the numeric keypad is really useful when you're working with numbers. ;) What's never useful though is multimedia buttons.

If the numeric were placed in a 4*4 matrix (Hex obviously) they could be really useful.
I've never reflected over multimedia keys really. Right now I'm sitting in front of a Compaq "family friendly" keyboard or whatever you wanna call the shit. <Miniblog> Found it in the trash. I have to use it with this particular computer because it's my only USB keyboard and the PS/2 socket has come off from the motherboard. Shen I found it, it was really dirty, and had pink nylon fibres under the keys. I imagine it was owned by some old lady)</miniblog>
Anyway, it has the following extra buttons: Play, back/forward, stop, eject. Seven Compaq specific buttons, one help button, one button with a person on it (maybe an IM button), Vol+/-, mute, and suspend.
What I thought was that if I could make winamp react to the MM buttons when not focused, these buttons could actually be useful.
Right now they do nothing, except the eject button which starts a fresh copy of winamp.

old64scener: Is it possible that your joystick is set to 4-way mode? Apart from that, exchanging the joystick should not be too much of a hassle, you do not even need to solder.

http://www.x-arcade.com/service/open.shtml

Can't live without my clicky cherry G80-3000 keyboard.

Unfortunately no longer available without Windows-keys :(

@nitro2k01, there's the high probability of the keys working in XMPlay, if that's worth anything to you.

Btw, old64scener, this http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/joysticks/happrotary.html seems what you are looking for, but it won't work out of the box in your x-arcade.

best keyboard. ever.

(every key is a little display)