larrylaffer Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Hi folks! I got an AZERTY ST(f) and I am trying to figure out how to convert it the US standards... Obviously I need a 110V PSU but this post specific to the keyboard... The obvious answer is to find a US (or even UK) ST (any model really other than the Mega as the Megas I believe have different plungers?) and swap the keys or even better the whole keyboard (the keyboard swap is better since AZERTY has the > and < symbols right next to the left SHIFT which is reduced in size). But this can get expensive. Getting the keys from ebay I think is a daylight robbery, they are sold pretty expensive, especially for the number of keys I am looking to swap out (I think it might be cheaper to just get another computer for parts ;-)). But what about stickers? I have found stickers for the 8 bit ataris... (here) But not for ST... Does anybody have done anything like what I am trying to do? I bet someone has... Any thoughts would be awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 More important from keyboard is replacing TOS - French v. with US v. Surely TOS 1.04 US - and avoid 1.00, 1.02 (US) . Replacing only keyboard will not make it US English, to say so .. Although, it's probably already done, since no mentioning of French text on screen - or did not power it on so far ? As temporary solution replacing key caps should serve. I really don't know is there some diff in physical key layout between French and US ST kb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrylaffer Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 A few weeks (maybe months) ago I had asked questions about TOS versions and where to find it. You (of course) gave a few good pointers, and someone living really close offered to burn some eeproms for a very small fee, so I got a couple of extra US TOS roms just in case. So yeah, I already changed the TOS to a US one, that is why I don't complain about French menu or characters in thre screen. ? Moving the keys around does work (kind of) but gives a very ugly feeling typing as they all have a specific angle based on where they sit on the keyboard. As an example AZERTY has W at the bottom row, so moving out at the top is ugly... also the numbers and the characters are totally off. Then other characters out pair of characters are off... I can live with that for a while as you also said, but I want a more elegant solution... I am attaching the keyboard as it looks right now so that people can really see what I mean by "ugly" although in the picture it is not that obvious than it is in touch... just see the height of Q, W, E and R. They are totally uneven... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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