Armageddon keyboard drivers for Mac

[glamdring]

Just bought a stealth raptor mka7 but it wont detect correctly on mac osx. Are there special drivers for mac?

[glamdring]

oh wow! there is absolutely no information about it at all

[dorkvader]

oh wow! there is absolutely no information about it at all

I wasn't able to find anything either.

Most keyboards use the "normal" USB HID (human interface device) drivers, and some have additional drivers for added functions (usually programmability, macro keys, etc.) Who knows what Armageddon does.

I suspect there's something about it that OS X is not liking (like the noppoo choc mini). Does it show up in system profiler?

[FoxWolf1]

It's a rebrand or variant of a keyboard also sold under the dare-u aka LBOTS and FlashGet brands...but I don't see anything to indicate Mac support for the other versions, either.

Looking at the dare-u and FlashGet versions, I see that they have NKRO over USB. The most common implementations of this feature are not Mac-compatible. Some ads for those versions list the key combinations for the special features of the keyboard, and I see no evidence of a feature to turn off NKRO in favor of 6KRO, which suggests that no accommodation has been made for Mac compatibility.

[saturnotaku]

The only keyboards I know of that has specific Mac-compatible software are from Razer, but I wouldn't go anywhere near those. A few mechanical boards have the ability to use Mac layouts by changing hardware DIP switches. Examples include the KUL ES-87, Ducky Shine 3, and WASD CODE. The CODE is probably the most Mac friendly of the lot, but you have to want either MX green or clear switches since those are the only two available for it.

Otherwise, you can use a system preference pane in OS X to alter the layout of a standard Windows keyboard. You can interchange the caps lock, control, alt/option, and command keys to do any of each other's functions (eg make the control key command and vice versa). You can use this to make OS X essentially mimic the way a keyboard would work in Windows, which is especially handy if you dual-boot.

[dorkvader]

Such keyboards will often work on PS/2. You can usually run them in PS/2 mode into a PS/2 to USB converter which will work fine with your mac.

[glamdring]

I just decided to use the keyboard on my linux box on my desktop. Mac is just a pain to get any real job done.