chap could come up with a Spanish layout? Do you suppose it would be Spanish, Catalan, Basque or Latin-American?
Changing Key Mappings?
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Re: Changing Key Mappings?
I wonder if that
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Re: Changing Key Mappings?
Hmmm, all these input locales (aka keyboard drivers) do not rearrange the keys - they just change the interpretation. Which means they tweak the translation from scan codes (make/break codes) to characters that applications usually work on.
But Oolite works on scan codes so the input locale does not matter. Having one picture per keyboard type is absolutely sufficient. Unless someone modifies that and then might come up with his own mapping.
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I think I just now understood the overlay functionality. That picture is meant to be printed, cut, folded, glued and just placed onto the real keyboard!
Really nice idea! _lol_
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That's how it worked with the original Elite. The game for the BBC computer came with an overlay that fitted the keyboard.hiran wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 9:06 pmI think I just now understood the overlay functionality. That picture is meant to be printed, cut, folded, glued and just placed onto the real keyboard!
Really nice idea! _lol_
See here for overlay: https://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Elite/b ... upTape.jpg - the white strip of card in the bottom right corner. It sat on top of the red function keys - see here: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/BBC_Micro
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Re: Changing Key Mappings?
I have seen such strips - even create some for myself for Paradox for Windows - way later than what you referring to.Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 1:34 pmThat's how it worked with the original Elite. The game for the BBC computer came with an overlay that fitted the keyboard.
See here for overlay: https://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Elite/b ... upTape.jpg - the white strip of card in the bottom right corner. It sat on top of the red function keys - see here: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/BBC_Micro
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The way that BBC micro is built it seems to be asking for strips to be placed on top of the function keys.
But these DIY key caps were really new to me. So easy to create, so easy to rearrange...
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