British STE question

[Wally1]

I have a British 520 STE.

 

when i press shift-3 i get a British pound sign.

 

 

is there a way to get the American "#" sign from the keyboard?

 

 

Thanks a lot

 

[galax]

It sounds like you have a US keyboard and a British version of TOS in ROM? If so you could fix these problems by switching to a US version of TOS.

 

Try pressing \ which is just below Delete. You probably won't be able to type \ or | at all, as that key is under your longer left shift key.

 

US ST Keyboard Layout UK ST Keyboard Layout

Edited February 16, 2016 by galax

[Wally1]

it is a British keyboard as well

 

thanks!

 

i didnt see that before!

 

wally

[tjlazer]

I have US tos 2.06 for sale if you want

[Amimitl2]

I have a British 520 STE.

 

when i press shift-3 i get a British pound sign.

 

 

is there a way to get the American "#" sign from the keyboard?

 

 

Thanks a lot

 

 

Instead of replacing TOS, as some have suggested, you could also use a small utility called keyedit, to remap the keys as you would like to have them. I find it very useful myself. When you're finished with remapping the keys, you save the changes as a small PRG file, that you put in the auto folder, either on a floppy disk or a hard drive and it loads in the changes every time you boot up the machine.

keyedit.zip

Edited February 24, 2016 by Amimitl2

[atarian63]

Well I will find this out myself in reverse, bought an STE from the UK and it's on its way, ordered a US power supply but must have missed the difference in keyboards. Will use with a dell 2001fp and BEST vga cable.

[+CyranoJ]

Well I will find this out myself in reverse, bought an STE from the UK and it's on its way, ordered a US power supply but must have missed the difference in keyboards. Will use with a dell 2001fp and BEST vga cable.

 

Then you'll only get monochrome high res.

[galax]

 

Then you'll only get monochrome high res.

 

No, the Dell 2001FP natively supports all ST resolutions with the right cable: http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Flat_Panel_Displays

[+CyranoJ]

 

No, the Dell 2001FP natively supports all ST resolutions with the right cable: http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Flat_Panel_Displays

 

Ah neat. I didn't know that. But then the Best site looks like it was made in the 90s with the Geocities site builder and hurts the eyes, so CBA'd to read any of it. You expect it to have marquees, animated gifs and horrible midi music.

[atarian63]

That was what I read as well, installed the USA power supply yesterday and did a fill cleanup,will see if it works OK next week, snowmobiling this weekend.

[Wally1]

thanks Amimitl2

[Seob]

Found this keyboard today at a local thriftshop. Sadly no system, could use a atari st. Picked it up since you hardly see any atari st stuff here.