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| - | Ergodex created the device in 2005 and released it to the world where it received much praise, especially from left-handed gamers who until now have had to suffer with remapping the keys on every single game they play to the opposite side of the keyboard. Some games, including many popular games, don't even allow keyboard remapping thus forcing their users to struggle to play the games how their narrow minded right-handed developers designed them. The Ergodex is a godsend to left-handed people as it allows you to place up to 50 keys where ever you like on the pad and assign any keys (and macros) to each key and have the pad automatically reconfigure itself depending on the current application in use. It's also great for many other users, for right-handed users it allows you easier (and faster) access to more keys. Many disabled users are also finding it very useful. In fact [[http://www.ghengisfireworks.co.uk/|fireworks]] the device is so good it recevied an award from popular science in 2005 [[http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown2005/computing/8cccc18872927010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html|Best of what's new 2005]]. | + | Ergodex created the device in 2005 and released it to the world where it received much praise, especially from left-handed gamers who until now have had to suffer with remapping the keys on every single game they play to the opposite side of the keyboard. Some games, including many popular games, don't even allow keyboard remapping thus forcing their users to struggle to play the games how their narrow minded right-handed developers designed them. The Ergodex is a godsend to left-handed people as it allows you to place up to 50 keys where ever you like on the pad and assign any keys (and macros) to each key and have the pad automatically reconfigure itself depending on the current application in use. It's also great for many other users, for right-handed users it allows you easier (and faster) access to more keys. Many disabled users are also finding it very useful. In fact the device is so good it recevied an award from popular science in 2005 [[http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown2005/computing/8cccc18872927010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html|Best of what's new 2005]]. |
| Unfortunately Ergodex have not created any drivers for MacOS X or Linux, nor even Windows XP64 bit, now Windows Vista is out and there's still no offical drivers for these 4 important operating systems! Ergodex will not give ANY information regarding support for these 4 operating systems for which drivers do not exist. Nor will they give ANY information regarding driver updates and new features - not that the existing drivers on Windows XP 32bit don't work, they do, and very well, it's just that we want more from our DX1's than Ergodex seem to be willing to provide. | Unfortunately Ergodex have not created any drivers for MacOS X or Linux, nor even Windows XP64 bit, now Windows Vista is out and there's still no offical drivers for these 4 important operating systems! Ergodex will not give ANY information regarding support for these 4 operating systems for which drivers do not exist. Nor will they give ANY information regarding driver updates and new features - not that the existing drivers on Windows XP 32bit don't work, they do, and very well, it's just that we want more from our DX1's than Ergodex seem to be willing to provide. | ||
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| This site aims to bring together as many developers as possible in order to first document the USB protocol the device uses and second to write new drivers, primarily for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP and (all 64 and 32bit editions) while attempting to keep as much of the code as reusable as possible so that it may be used to create MacOS X and Linux drivers too. | This site aims to bring together as many developers as possible in order to first document the USB protocol the device uses and second to write new drivers, primarily for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP and (all 64 and 32bit editions) while attempting to keep as much of the code as reusable as possible so that it may be used to create MacOS X and Linux drivers too. | ||
| - | Thanks to my (Hydra's) work in reverse engineering the USB protocol other developers were able to write Linux drivers and also port them to OSX, they're on the [[downloads|downloads page]] the linux and osx driver offer no GUIs or macro support. Rob Povey over at Polygon hell also has created some UMDF drivers for Windows XP, Vista (32 and 64bit), you can find them here: http://polygonalhell.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-32-and-64-bit-ergodex-dx1-drivers.html | + | Thanks to my (Hydra's) work in reverse engineering the USB protocol other developers were able to write Linux drivers and also port them to OSX, they're on the [[downloads|downloads page]] the linux and osx driver offer no GUIs or macro support. Rob Povey over at Polygon hell also has created some UMDF drivers for Windows XP, Vista (32 and 64bit), you can find them here: http://polygonalhell.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-32-and-64-bit-ergodex-dx1-drivers.html and there's an open-source project for them here too: http://code.google.com/p/ew-ergodex-dx1-driver/ |
| The primary focus is to provide KMDF based Windows 7 64bit drivers (as opposed to Rob's UDMF drivers or Erogdex's WDM drivers). Only KMDF (Kernel Mode Driver Framework) or MDL can provide the lowest latency macro support which is crucial for advanced macro usage, especially duing cpu intensive tasks (like playing games/video editing). | The primary focus is to provide KMDF based Windows 7 64bit drivers (as opposed to Rob's UDMF drivers or Erogdex's WDM drivers). Only KMDF (Kernel Mode Driver Framework) or MDL can provide the lowest latency macro support which is crucial for advanced macro usage, especially duing cpu intensive tasks (like playing games/video editing). | ||
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| If you want to help with the project please drop me, hydra, an email at this address: me at dominicclifton dot name | If you want to help with the project please drop me, hydra, an email at this address: me at dominicclifton dot name | ||
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| + | Please note, due to excessive edits by spammers all wiki accounts have NO write access until they are verified personally by me, please email me if you'd like your account verified or just email me with any changes you'd like to see added if that's too much trouble. Sorry about this, damn spammers! | ||
| Or, you can join the #ergodex IRC channel on freenode [[irc://irc.freenode.net/#ergodex]]. | Or, you can join the #ergodex IRC channel on freenode [[irc://irc.freenode.net/#ergodex]]. | ||
| If you've not used IRC before then grab a copy of [[http://www.HydraIRC.com|HydraIRC]] (which I, Hydra, also wrote :-) ), install it, start it, create a profile then click the irc:// link above to join the channel or use file/connect and paste in the irc:// link from above and click "Ok". Shortly after you should see a connection to irc.freenode.net being made and then a new window will appear for the channel. If the channel is empty just wait and someone will appear. If you want to page me then just say my name (Hydra) in the channel. | If you've not used IRC before then grab a copy of [[http://www.HydraIRC.com|HydraIRC]] (which I, Hydra, also wrote :-) ), install it, start it, create a profile then click the irc:// link above to join the channel or use file/connect and paste in the irc:// link from above and click "Ok". Shortly after you should see a connection to irc.freenode.net being made and then a new window will appear for the channel. If the channel is empty just wait and someone will appear. If you want to page me then just say my name (Hydra) in the channel. | ||
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| Many thanks to those that have already donated, your donations have been graciously received - Hydra | Many thanks to those that have already donated, your donations have been graciously received - Hydra | ||
| ===== Current Status ===== | ===== Current Status ===== | ||
| - | *2010/4/24 - Green Goose | ||
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| - | Just upgraded to Windows 7 and there are no drivers available. | ||
| * 2009/10/17 - Hydra | * 2009/10/17 - Hydra | ||
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