Hmm.. I wonder how the keyboard input is done in DOSBox. I use a German keymap, and i would appreciate if that would take effect in DOSBox. One important key that i couldn't find (and i tried all keys and combinations, believe me) was the vitally important backslash. So?
Why doesn't the keyboard behave in DOSBox exactly as it does in Windows?
I guess because its emulated to the Hex #s and not to the actual windows ones to be faster.
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As there a almost no games that can handle a german keyboard layout.
so we stick to an english one.
But feel free to use the forwarslash instead
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Running from BeOS, I experiment the following dosbox keyboard nasties:
1) AltGr-sifted keys work, but they add a "1" to the output
(I.E. in an spanish linuxlike keyboard, "\" is in ALTGR-key-below-esc , but pressing ALTGR-4 to make "\" produces "1\")
2) Of course, I can get vital keystrokes, like "\", using the usa map, as I do when I start a computer from a floppy: "\" is inSHIFT-key_right_of_ L, and so.
3) F3 (copy command line) is implemented, but left, right,F1,F2,F4 DON'T work at command line. So if you want to modify starting part of command line you have to write it over.
4) With some games, direction keys don't work (I¡'m talking about Transarctica/Ice Baron, wich has a text-mode option menu at start that does not recognize arrow keys (but needs them). That game is reported as "supported")
Yes, I've played text-only games on a
Macintosh.
Someone said somewhere else on this forum that a keystroke that's producing an '1' is a feature and not a bug.
Couldn't they have used the standard ANSI code for xtended keypresses? What program DOES use that feature?
(Well, Ms. Office's "Clipo" character is also said to be a feature...)
Yes, I've played text-only games on a
Macintosh.
