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[RELEASED] Graphical Keyboard Mapper

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 5:29 pm
by fcatrin
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

Re: Graphical Keyboard Mapper

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 6:00 pm
by danytyler
Nice feature.

Re: Graphical Keyboard Mapper

Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:14 pm
by Ratbag
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

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:26 pm
by fcatrin
This one is now available for the Beta version, using the MS-DOS emulation

Re: Graphical Keyboard Mapper

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:05 am
by fcatrin
Now it's public!

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1337