Short: Helps to diagnose phantom keyboard problems on boot. Author: kevsamiga@btopenworld.com (Kev Harrison) Uploader: kevsamiga btopenworld com (Kev Harrison) Type: util/boot Version: 45.2 Requires: AmigaOS 3.1+, lowlevel.library. Architecture: m68k-amigaos This program helps to find if a keyboard is failing at boot time. I have an A4000 keyboard attached to an A1200 which is unfortunately dying. Sometimes the machine will boot with random keys pressed continuously which obviously are not so. The result of this isn't always immediately obvious since the keys which are falsely depressed could be anything. The F keys for example, and the machine sometimes doesn't show itself to be anything wrong, not even in a shell. So, because of this re-occuring fault with the keyboard, I needed something which would test it for false depressions at boot time, letting me know there and then instead of later when I came to do/save something important and have phantom keystrokes ruining everything. I had a look at aminet for a program to do this, and strangely there wasn't anything which could test this on boot. It was/is an annoying problem, So in the great Amiga tradition, I decided to roll my own tester. Thinking other people could have this problem too, due the the Amiga hardware ageing and dying as the years roll on, I decided to upload it. Features - System friendly, only OS functions called, no home made key detection. routines, and no shutdown of interrupts or multitasking. No bad hacks. - Uses Intuition 39+ TimedDisplayAlert of 3 seconds to show keyboard test pass or fail while booting. - Written in assembler, very small only 460 Bytes. - Requires lowlevel.library, hence the need for OS 3.1+ ......