He means a German Keyboard considering there aren't that many differences to an English keyboard I'm not sure what he wants to "scroll".

well not sure dosbox doesn't keep a scrollback buffer and you can't set your keyboard layout to german.

Maybe in the future. but not at the moment

I meant the sign "~".I can't find this and other signs on the DOSBOX. Is there a possibility to give MODE con codepage...?
My computer says "Dos-Version wrong" if I give Dosbox "Mode".

😕

On an English keyboard it is the key right below the escape key. Hold down shift and hit it.

Dear Carrera!

Thanks for your help, but I've got a German keyboard and want to have the same layout in Dosbox, so that when I print a key, the same sign appears at Disbox.

Marco

Derzeit geht das nicht, vielleicht in einer späteren Version von DosBox. Du musst Dich halt erstmal mit der englischen Tastatur begnügen. Speziell die ganzen "Alt Gr" Tasten gehen überhaupt nicht.

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Currently that's not possible, maybe in a later version of DosBox. For now, you have to stick to the english layout. Especially the "Alt Gr" keys don't work at all.

Much thanks for your help!

At time I'm adding some support for foreign layout support. At time I've got a almost full working German layout (AltGR, combined letters like é etc. works fine, but there are still some minor bugs left), but I want to load the transform tables from a file and I want to write a frontend to create such files. To use the static German layout now, download the sourcecode of Dosbox 0.60 and replace the bios_keyboard.c file with the attached file. (Only tested with MSVC, but should work with any compiler and any OS)

Ich benutze auch ne deutsche Tastatur.

Geh im Ordner dosbox auf die config und gib ganz unten folgendes ein

mount c c:\Pfad deines Ordner mit den alten Games
c:

und schon gehts.

Hat einer schon mal c:/irgentwas probiert?
Klappt nämlich auch.
Bei mir (XPSP1+Aktuelle Version) wird einfach deutsch genommen, also muss ich nur shift+7 nehmen...

I've modified my bios_keyboard file a little bit. Now you can change between US and German layout with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+F2. The entire German (or other language) layout is loaded in void set_table();
I still had neither the time to write a GUI for creating layouts nor to load them from an external file. But everything is now moved to a single function. And I've fixed some othe minor bugs in my "first" version.

Caligula

thanks you all, now it works!!
but how can i compile it??i haven't any vc only vc.net!

4th posting at this forum CVS Builds (once a week)
(I would probably also add - msysDTK-1.0.1.exe)
Note that this is ~ 27mb of downloading.

First of all, please don't kill me if I say something stupid... 😀

If I am going to add another char table(russian for example), then I should do 2 things.
1. Add ability to render the characters (because now dosbox, (cvs version too), doesn’t show ru chars(he-he, old times) )
2. The char table.

I was looking through Caligula bios_keyboard ...
set_table(int b,Bit16u normal,Bit16u shift,Bit16u control,Bit16u alt,Bit16u altGR)
as i understand *nornal* is the ASCII key code (am I right?) of the char and other params. are shift and etc. state.
But, i don’t understand the format of Bit16. More, i can't understand why some keys have that params, and why are they different. SO, if any one can explain it, I’ll be very grateful, and sorry for being so stupid. 🙁

The Hi-Byte represents the scankey value of the key and the Low-Byte represents the ASCII Key - It's not necessary to change the Scankey (except perhaps for some special usage) just leave it "as is".

To change the Chardesign itself you have to modify the VGA source code, or at least the tablesfor the character layout.

Caligula

Thanks a lot! And now work, work, work... 😀

Thoughts for the future:
Codepage selection in the dosbox.conf as i18n is continued.