Computer systems are the most hard to make them being usable in TV devices unless you have a physical keyboard. Since the beginning, RetroX has tried to make computer games behave like console games providing a method for the user to map keys to buttons using a text file (*). Although the ability exists it can be too cumbersome to quickly just try one game and jump to another one.
A new feature will enable users to graphically map keys to their controllers, and that will be integrated into all computer system emulators: Atari XL/XE, Commodore Amiga, MS-DOS. Other emulators like C64 are waiting (**) for this feature before release. Other systems will be easily added once this feature is available for them: ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC are in the queue.
This keyboard mapper also will act as a soft keyboard if the user needs to type a name or sometimes a password for their games.
(*) http://www.retrox.tv/button-mappings/
(**) viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1318
[RELEASED] Graphical Keyboard Mapper
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[RELEASED] Graphical Keyboard Mapper
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Franco Catrin
RetroX developer
RetroX developer
Re: Graphical Keyboard Mapper
Nice feature.
Re: Graphical Keyboard Mapper
fcatrin wrote:Computer systems are the most hard to make them being usable in TV devices unless you have a physical keyboard. Since the beginning, RetroX has tried to make computer games behave like console games providing a method for the user to map keys to buttons using a text file (*). Although the ability exists it can be too cumbersome to quickly just try one game and jump to another one.
A new feature will enable users to graphically map keys to their controllers, and that will be integrated into all computer system emulators: Atari XL/XE, Commodore Amiga, MS-DOS. Other emulators like C64 are waiting (**) for this feature before release. Other systems will be easily added once this feature is available for them: ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC are in the queue.
This keyboard mapper also will act as a soft keyboard if the user needs to type a name or sometimes a password for their games.
(*) http://www.retrox.tv/button-mappings/
(**) viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1318
Looking forward to this. The 8 bit emulators on Android are hit and miss in my opinion. I can't even figure a way to get amstrad games to load in emulators without typing in run commands.
Re: Graphical Keyboard Mapper
This one is now available for the Beta version, using the MS-DOS emulation
Franco Catrin
RetroX developer
RetroX developer
Re: Graphical Keyboard Mapper
Franco Catrin
RetroX developer
RetroX developer
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