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Ah, I always hated emulation.
What's wrong with emulation? It's great for running GCC :) It was also great when my Amiga was broken :)

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Nothing beats the real thing.
Indeed!
 

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Re: Reasons why I don't like emulators - or why xx-UAE is really unusable
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2014, 04:48:41 AM »
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Because the German Amiga keyboard has one extra key to the right of the backspace key, with the | and \ symbols printed on it a German PC keyboard does not have. The key does not exist. On the Amiga keyboard, it is cut off from the backspace key which has only half the size of its PC equivalent. Hence, you cannot type backspaces on UAE, neither pipes.
Perhaps you should make Toni aware of this issue. He's on EAB regularly, and there's a good chance he has a solution. He may even implement a solution. That is, if you're using WinUae, of course.
 

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Re: Reasons why I don't like emulators - or why xx-UAE is really unusable
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2014, 05:24:40 PM »
To Thomas Richter:

So, basically you're complaining about something that you can fix yourself, but won't, because you don't want to spend time fixing something that you would use.

Really, what a load of crap.
 

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Re: Reasons why I don't like emulators - or why xx-UAE is really unusable
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2014, 02:02:12 AM »
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I don't complain. I report.
No. This is complaining, the thread title is a dead giveaway:
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Reasons why I don't like emulators - or why xx-UAE is really unusable
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I don't want to spend time on this because I'm simply not interested enough for spending time on it.
You're certainly interested enough to start a thread like this. A thread which will undoubtedly end up serving no purpose at all.

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Apparently, you seem to take this personal. I don't understand why.
It comes off as complaining, and not doing anything about it while you have the skills to fix it. It's probably not even very difficult, and it probably won't even take all that much time. It's annoying.

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This report doesn't require an action.
And had you contacted the authors of these emulators, and reported the issues properly (something that would've taken less time to do then making this thread and posting in it several times), they might have been interested in fixing the issue.

It's no shirt off my back, of course, but it's certainly annoying. You find it too unimportant to fix, but not to complain about it.
 

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Re: Reasons why I don't like emulators - or why xx-UAE is really unusable
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2014, 07:52:51 AM »
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Once again: The purpose of the thread was to answer a question I got: "Why don't you use emulators".
Then answer them by PM or email instead of starting a thread which comes off as complaining.