/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7345468]

What was the point of these kind of keyboards? I never had the makings of a PC gamer, so I’ve never even seen one in person. I assume it was more so for typing, but was it advantageous for gaming?

[Anonymous No.7345471]

I don't think they've ever been seen as advantageous for gaming, the split's purely for ergonomics.

[Anonymous No.7345474]

>>7345468
The old Microsoft Natural Keyboard was comfy as fuck.

There was no disadvantage for playing, since you played with the arrow keys before the retarded "pro-gamer" wasd meme layout came around.

[Anonymous No.7345503]

>>7345468
It is what I use. The layout is comfortable for me and I played a lot of Q3A, UT, RO, Blizzard, and H-games with it. I think I type best on that layout.

Similar to the ideal arcade stick that would suit me, I'd like a combination of ideas which have not been mass produced (Sega Astro City layout in Sanwa with far spacing from Seimitsu joystick). Ideally for a keyboard, I'd like a layout with the nav cluster on the left and numpad on the right, just to move the mouse closer for a better layout to game/type. Maybe to round the ideal out it could be buckling springs with a thick metal backplate to suit me best. Such projects are beyond my abilities to create, but choosing something close to the theoretical ideal is nice, like the layout.

[Anonymous No.7345621]

Picrel is the best keyboard ever made. The palm rest is padded, the zoom slider can be set to replicate middle mouse, the back/forward keys make it perfect for video tasks. Buttons are firm and the layout forces you to type correctly. It even has a detachable platform for the front that changes the pitch of the keys to mitigate RSI. Easily given me a 10/20% bump in productivity, more in 3D modeling due to the zoom slide, although I do have a second keyboard and pen tablet for that workflow. It's successor isn't a patch on this beast, so I have 2 brand new spares incase my first dies. Nearly a decade in and she's still going strong, although the lettering is gone from some of the keys. Best $40 I ever spent.

[Anonymous No.7345626]

>>7345471
They're not that great for typing 2bh

[Anonymous No.7345634]

>>7345474
Can you explain what makes "wasd layout" a pro gamer meme? To me it makes perfect sense at least when used together with a mouse.

[Anonymous No.7345656]

>>7345468
They're basically useless. Unless your arms come out of the side of you body instead of the front or your torso is wider and an inch they won't align with the natural angle of your hands when you place them on a keyboard.

[Anonymous No.7345773]

>>7345634
Ignore him, there really is no end to perfectly reasonable things that people will get unnecessarily triggered by.

[Anonymous No.7345786]

The carpal tunnel meme

[Anonymous No.7345801]

Aren't they just "90s-early 00s cool" designed?

[Anonymous No.7345950]

>>7345634
There is no reason. He’s just a contrarian.

[Anonymous No.7346064]

>>7345503
my hands follow this split except I press Y with my left index, these keyboard would really piss me off

[Anonymous No.7346089]

Never heard of a typing class that taught something like that, sounds like an unfortunate habit that you've developed

[Anonymous No.7346096]

>>7345468
Those kind of keyboards were designed to reduce strain on the Carpal Tunnel from typing, mainly in an office setting. They were horrible for gaming and even for typing they sucked ass. Notice no one makes them anymore and the standard keyboard format is pretty much the same now as before, whatever asshat thought this was a good idea, came up with it.

[Anonymous No.7346113]

>>7346089
it was taught in my elementary school in the mid 90s at least, they put stickers on the keyboard to show you where to put your fingers

I remember being pissed about it for some reason and getting in trouble for peeling them off

[Anonymous No.7346137]

>>7345621

Any keyboard with a useless gigantic arrow-key section AND numpad section on the far right, where your mouse hand needs to go, is garbage unless you're left-handed.

[Anonymous No.7346216]

>>7345468

[Anonymous No.7346227]

>>7345621
I used to use this keyboard at work. It's pretty good

[Anonymous No.7346230]

>>7346137
>using a mouse
>ever

ngmi

[Anonymous No.7346231]

>>7346096
>Notice no one makes them anymore
you're retarded
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=split+keyboard

[Anonymous No.7346262]

we were supposed to have neural i/o keyboards...

that was 25 years ago...

[Anonymous No.7346293]

>>7346064
>i do it wrong wrong so the right tools don't work for me.
lol. I imagine there might be a legit reason to do that though. Fortunately custom keyboards are a think these days and will within the budget of anyone who needs one.

[Anonymous No.7346525]

>>7346216
me on the left

[Anonymous No.7348193]

>>7345468
Ergo af

[Anonymous No.7348651]

>>7345468
>24x CD ROM
So close, should be a 4x at most. Most people still had 2x when Doom came out if they even had a drive.

[Anonymous No.7349087]

>>7348651
>should be a 4x at most
y?

[Anonymous No.7349167]

>>7345468
I always fucking hated these because there's a few keys I don't use the correct hand for down the middle and I type up to 100wpm.

[Anonymous No.7349281]

>>7349167
Technically even if you filled a whole post with hahahaha it's only one word

[Anonymous No.7349903]

>>7349087
Doom, 486, 1993
Come now

[Anonymous No.7351063]

>>7345474
you sound unbelievably retarded.

[Anonymous No.7352618]

>>7349903
>autism
That's what I thought. Were there even 4x drives in 1993? Would be pretty funny if you went though all that autism and got it wrong. Also, you know people played doom after 1993, right?

[Anonymous No.7352626]

>>7345468
They were another useless fad. Real enthusiast had an IBM Model M Keyboards. They doubled as clubs in case normies entered the nerd sphere.

[Anonymous No.7352856]

>>7345503
Gaddamn this makes me feel comfy, ty anon