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No, I'm anti "non-working solutions". MS-Word under wine works perfectly. AmigaOs under UAE does not. Big difference. Neither. But why should I run an emulator in an emulator? If linux wasn't important enough for the original author, why should this program be important enough for me? It's acceptable if I need something for work, and word is something I need for work, but UAE isn't work. It's at best a hobby. Perhaps. As said, I've enough projects of my own (including my own emulator), so please count me out. But objectively, this doesn't make things any more workable for me. Very funny. There is no backslash key on a german keyboard. I believe I said this multiple times. It is at Alt-ß, and only there. These are elementary problems an emulator should be able to take care of, but apparently not. You can offer me workarounds, but these are workarounds and no solutions. I wanted to give reasons why it the emulation doesn't work for me, and that's exactly why it doesn't, and the most important reason. If I first have to sit down and implement some work-around, or need to change my typing style because apparently the authors are unaware or unwilling to emulate a standard keyboard, then this makes things for me unusable. You may not like it, but that's what it is. But it is a standard PC "shortcut", and thus, by all basics, it should work. There's nothing exotic or unusual about this. The German keyboard is an ISO-standard, not a quasi-standard, and if I run an emulator on a PC, it should understand the standard PC keyboard I'm typing on. That's elementary and not asking for "too much". I neither blame you nor the PC for not having this key. I'm blaming emulator authors for producing half-baked solutions that are non-workable. Mapping the keyboard in a correct way is a problem every emulation has to take care of, and it is not exactly a trivial problem, but neither rocket science. And the rule should be that every key you have on the emulated platform must be reachable from the emulator. The request I have is *really that simple*. Sigh. How do I compile a library then? SAS/C is not available under Linux. In other words, it requires quite an amount of porting the sources to make this happen. Maybe you have the time to do that, but I don't. I just want to compile and bugfix what I have, and do not have enough spare time to invest to port from one tool chain to a completely different tool chain.
Ah, thank you. I did not know this, this would at least make the console and the editor half-way usable, or at least usable at all. It's still not ideal since it does not follow the conventions of the german PC keyboard and makes editing uselessly hard. It's again a matter of use-cases: For the casual user or the gamer, this is surely not a barrier. How often would you need the key in first place? For a developer, oh well...
If you read the whole thread last post tells you how to move extra key position. It's a config setting.
