I could’ve sworn this topic has come up here before but a search yielded nothing. I could also just get a new keyboard for 20 bucks, but I’m lazy.
I have a ghetto keyboard (manufactured by “Memorex”) I got from a friend. This is the oddest keyboard I’ve ever seen – I had to pop off three buttons in the upper right that shut the computer down / restart it / and put it into sleep mode!
Anyway, next to the right shift is a peculiar button called turbo. I have no idea what it’s supposed to do, but it’s not recognized by any program. I’d like to remap this to something useful so I could use it in a PC game. Problem is, I don’t trust any of these shady exes floating around in a page full of porn ads. So, is there a reliable, trustworthy, and free keyboard remapping program anyone can recommend? I’d be very appreciative.
That must be a really old keyboard like from a 486 (pre Pentium I) or earlier. If the Turbo key is like some stuff from that era, the processor (or something related) had a Turbo mode that supposedly made it process faster. I think that some things were compatible with that mode and others not so you toggle it.
Kind of. It was misnamed, because the purpose was to slow it down for certain games. In other words, you wanted to leave it active at all other times. Turbo button - Wikipedia