Key rollover is like a superhero for gamers and fast typers. It lets my keyboard keep up with lots of keys hit at the same time without missing any or making mistakes. Most keyboards can handle a few keys, but if two people are using one or someone needs to hit many buttons fast, ...
How Does the SideWinder X4 keyboard address the different causes? The internal electronics on the SideWinder X4 use a variant of resistive multitouch technology. Each key has a screen printed resistor in series with its switch. This allows the internal electronics to read the state of each key ...
An easy change that keyboard makers utilize is to rearrange the wires such that important key combinations don’t exhibit this problem. However, all this does is move the problems to other sets of keys, where the user is less likely to notice. Another possibility is to add extra wires to ...
So, in case it wasn’t clear, ghosting sucks, and I still don’t understand why some people do it when it’s just so much easier and kinder to be honest. But for all the times it has happened to me, and for all the times it has happened to my friends, know this:it is almost...