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[VICE] Symbolic and positional keyboard mapping [message #35841] Fri, 25 January 2013 21:14 Go to next message
Andreas Kohlbach is currently offline  Andreas Kohlbach
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I'm using the latest (for Debian available) version of VICE. But did
plant the hard drive of the old computer into a new computer.

Since then I cannot get a decent keyboard layout. For example when I try
to type "LOAD" I only get "LO" and the "A" would produce a space. The "D"
seems to produce a "2".

I was going through they keyboard mapping and tried all combinations of
"symbolic" and "positional" mappings. Loaded the appropriate map files I
hope, but to no avail. Here part of the vicerc after shutting down VICE
(which then saves the settings).

KeymapSymFile="/usr/lib/vice/C64/x11_sym.vkm"
KeymapPosFile="/usr/lib/vice/C64/x11_pos.vkm"
KeymapSymDeFile="x11_sym.vkm"

May be I look in the wrong place and there is a different menu option I
have to play with?
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Re: [VICE] Symbolic and positional keyboard mapping [message #35842 is a reply to message #35841] Sat, 26 January 2013 05:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Robert Roland is currently offline  Robert Roland
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:14:25 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach
<january13.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> Since then I cannot get a decent keyboard layout. For example when I try

> to type "LOAD" I only get "LO" and the "A" would produce a space. The "D"

> seems to produce a "2".


I'm guessing you have activated joystick 1 emulation on those keys.
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Re: [VICE] Symbolic and positional keyboard mapping [message #35843 is a reply to message #35842] Sat, 26 January 2013 21:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Andreas Kohlbach is currently offline  Andreas Kohlbach
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Robert Roland wrote on 26. January 2013:
>

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:14:25 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach

> <january13.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

>

>> Since then I cannot get a decent keyboard layout. For example when I try

>> to type "LOAD" I only get "LO" and the "A" would produce a space. The "D"

>> seems to produce a "2".

>

> I'm guessing you have activated joystick 1 emulation on those keys.


No. But you lead me to the solution. I had to DEACTIVATE "Allow joystick
keysets".

Thanks. :-)
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Re: [VICE] Symbolic and positional keyboard mapping [message #245141 is a reply to message #35843] Sat, 22 February 2014 04:30 Go to previous message
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Originally posted by: chitselb

How do you set up the mapping to be able to type shifted graphic characters on the PET? I found this:

parenright 1 4 0

thethingIwant 1 4 1


but what lets me type the little half-triangle thing with a screen code of $69? It's shift-rightparen on a real PET keyboard. What I'd like is to use on my PC keyboard is right-shift for the PETSCII graphics on the punctuation row of the keyboard, left-shift for the punctuation characters, and unshifted for the numbers. I googled and googled but no joy.

Thanks,
Charlie
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