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Gateway 2000 AnyKey Keyboard Macro Backup Utility Program
"Dan from PI" wrote in message news Rich, It's called the X-keys. It's available in both PS/2 and USB versions. The PS/2 version carries all of the macros in an onboard memory, and the USB version can be configured that way. One nice advantage it has over the Anykey is that it's easy to label the keys so you don't forget which macro is on which key. Here's a web page I wrote about it a few years back: http://www.piengineering.com/resources/anykey.php I hope you find this useful. -- Dan from PI Interesting site. It even has a picture of a Gateway Keyboard. However, another product caught my eye there. My 11 year old son likes to upload videos of his Wii Call Of Duty action to YouTube. Originally he would use a camera to record the TV screen. Then he asked me for this inexpensive USB device called EasyCap which comes with Ulead movie capturing software. Unfortunately, unless the computer is right next to the game console there's a problem. So I bought him a 16 foot active USB extension which isn't really quite long enough. However, the data stream must be too much for even an active USB cable & the sound gets out of synch with the video. The USB Extender may solve the problem. Thanks, Rich |
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Gateway 2000 AnyKey Keyboard Macro Backup Utility Program
Rich wrote:
Yes, I still have the keyboard, but something wasn't working on it, when I stopped using it long ago. Can't remember what it was. If you think the disk will go through the mail without a protective box [I don't have any mailers], you can contact me. Barbara After answering your post last night I did some more digging & located the disk. I purchased my system in February 1994. They didn't include a separate AnyKey disk at that time apparently The program was in a folder on the main system disk that included Windows 3.11 & various utilities. It's interesting that you say something broke on your keyboard. Gateway stopped using them in 1996 because they were weary of the support calls for "broken" keyboards which actually had been remapped accidentally Many times over the years I would be vigorously typing away & suddenly notice the "program macro" key flashing because I somehow inadvertently hit the magic combination. All I could do in that case is hit the button again effectively recording a 5 minute macro of unknown key combinations. All I could do is wipe out all macros to reset the board to normal & re-record my stored macros. You could see where this was driving Gateway crazy & why the backup utility is useful because you could just restore your macros after you messed up the keyboard & cleared it. I did that occasionally too. I think I just had keys sticking, and was too lazy to figure out how to clean them or fix them, since I had a new keyboard that came with the second system. Anyway, thanks for the offer & your trouble. Rich You're welcome. I know how much it would mean to me, if someone could direct me to some old games I had on previous systems. Glad you have found what you needed! bj |
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Gateway 2000 AnyKey Keyboard Macro Backup Utility Program
'Rich[_9_ Wrote: ;872124'] Interesting site. It even has a picture of a Gateway Keyboard. However, another product caught my eye there. My 11 year old son likes to upload videos of his Wii Call Of Duty action to YouTube. Originally he would use a camera to record the TV screen. Then he asked me for this inexpensive USB device called EasyCap which comes with Ulead movie capturing software. Unfortunately, unless the computer is right next to the game console there's a problem. So I bought him a 16 foot active USB extension which isn't really quite long enough. However, the data stream must be too much for even an active USB cable & the sound gets out of synch with the video. The USB Extender may solve the problem. Thanks, Rich Rich, the USB Extender is low speed USB, meant for extending our keyboards, so you may encounter the same or a similar issue. -- Dan from PI |
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Gateway 2000 AnyKey Keyboard Macro Backup Utility Program
"Dan from PI" wrote in message news 'Rich[_9_ Wrote: ;872124'] Interesting site. It even has a picture of a Gateway Keyboard. However, another product caught my eye there. My 11 year old son likes to upload videos of his Wii Call Of Duty action to YouTube. Originally he would use a camera to record the TV screen. Then he asked me for this inexpensive USB device called EasyCap which comes with Ulead movie capturing software. Unfortunately, unless the computer is right next to the game console there's a problem. So I bought him a 16 foot active USB extension which isn't really quite long enough. However, the data stream must be too much for even an active USB cable & the sound gets out of synch with the video. The USB Extender may solve the problem. Thanks, Rich Rich, the USB Extender is low speed USB, meant for extending our keyboards, so you may encounter the same or a similar issue. -- Dan from PI Oh. Thanks for the heads up. The video on the site showing the guy playing guitar hero mislead me. However, I can see where that would not require the amount of data transfer that a video capture would. Thanks, Rich |
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