I don't get it. Your four arrow keys will not be able to effectively map to an 8-key numpad. Aside from Ctrl, Alt, and Shift, keyboards aren't really designed to register simultaneous keypresses; that's why so many old games use Ctrl, Alt, and Shift for their "buttons". Well for example I use VICE …

Well for example the first thing I tried was Budokan, which supports both keypad and joystick, but it seems I would need to map an 8-key numpad to make it work. I'd rather just use the 4 arrow keys if possible since my Mac doesn't have a numpad and some games will require both the keyboard and a …

I just discovered DOSBOX and it looks like I'm going to have a ton of fun! I was hoping to be able to configure DOSBOX so that my 4 arrow keys could be used instead of an 8 way joystick or keypad (e.g. pressing up arrow + left arrow would result in an up-left joystick signal or a 7 on the keypad), …