[uae] Re: Key problems on OS X

  • From: Richard Drummond <evilrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:31:03 -0500

Hi Yann

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 04:17 pm, Yann Serra wrote:
> So, here is my experience about my french PowerBook keyboard. Three
> keys have a problem under UAE :
>   - Scancode:042 pressed   modifiers: (none)         : it does a `under
> OSX and a \ under AmigaOS
>   - Scancode:042 pressed   (?) modifiers: LSHIFT : it does a £ (Pound
> symbol) under OSX and a | (pipe) under AmigaOS
> (Regarding the use of those characters under AmigaOS, I would prefer
> you don't change anything as far the "|" is more useful than the "£"
> (Pound) character ; just my opinion).
> - Scancode:010 pressed   (@) modifiers: (none) : it does a < under
> AmigaOS
> - Scancode:010 pressed   (#) modifiers: LSHIFT : it does a > under
> AmigaOS
> - Scancode:050 pressed   (<) modifiers: (none)  :  it does a `under
> AmigaOS
> - Scancode:050 pressed   (>) modifiers: LSHIFT : it does a ~ (tilde)
> under AmigaOS

This is similar to Fred's problem: Mac keyboards are just too different from 
Amiga keyboards!

Again, I think the best solution would be for somebody to knock up some 
AmigaOS keymap drivers for the various problematic international Mac 
keyboards. Any volunteers? :-)

Cheers,
Rich

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