Ricky Spanish Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) Hello all ! Noob here so I don't know if this is the right spot to post this (apologies if it isn't). *Tried searching, found nothing* I downloaded Altirra on my Aspire 3 w11 laptop (I like to bring it with me on trips) and the problem I'm running into is that there is no 'home' key so I can PR. "(CLEAR)". Is there a workaround for that other than typing PR. CHR$(xx) ? On a side note: no Function key work either, as the laptop uses it for other things like spit screen (F5) etc., etc. Thanks in advance for any replies ! Edited April 26, 2022 by Ricky Spanish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 ok, so I remapped (clear) ESC->Shift+Home to ESC-> Shift+{ so that's out of the way, but the F keys are a real pain.. any pointers would be appreciated ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 @Ricky Spanish Re the mapped Atari function keys to laptop F keys. My laptop requires me to hold down the FN key and the respective function key when using Windows, so this doesn't affect Altirra's mapped function keys for Atari since they work on their own when you press each for Start, Select, Option, etc. I just tested Altirra on my laptop with a game which required me to hit the mapped Start key to start the game, so I just pressed F2 on my laptop keyboard and it worked no prob. Perhaps your laptop doesn't have a FN and function key combo - I thought most modern Windows laptops did. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Looks like with the Aspire 3 you can toggle the function key mode, but only through a BIOS setting -- there isn't a key combination to toggle Fn-Lock on the fly. Yuck. Between keyboard customization and keyboard shortcuts, you can redefine all of the Fn-shortcut keys in the emulator to use other keys. It is a lot of work, though. Altirra uses the left Alt key as the escape key for a bunch of functions and you could move a lot of functions to that; Alt+1 through Alt+0 in particular are used by the debugger and could be redefined in place of the function keys. There is also the on-screen keyboard, if you only need special keys infrequently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 (edited) Thanks for the information guys ! Looks like I have a lot of key mapping ahead of me ha-ha. Worth it though. @phaeron love the Altirra emulator bud ! Takes me back to the 80's when I had my beloved Atari 1200XL that sadly was 'smashed' by my brother because he thought it was 'funny'. I'm trying to get Altirra as close as I can to my old 1200XL with the following configuration, seems to work very well ! Base system NTSC 1200XL Additional Devices Happy 1050 disk drive (full emulation) OS Firmware Atari 1200XL OS rev. 11 [1A1D7B1B] Mounted Images Disk: DOS 2.5.atr Cartridge: OSS BASIC XL 1.03.rom [94A05568] Thanks again ! Edited April 29, 2022 by Ricky Spanish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmsc Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Hi! Many laptops this days miss home/end and other keys. My Dell laptop has the following "hidden" keys: - Fn+LEFT : HOME - Fn+RIGHT : END - Fn+B : PAUSE/BREAK - Fn+S : scroll-lock - Fn+R : print-screen Perhaps yours also have some hidden Fn "combo" keys? Have Fun! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 3 hours ago, dmsc said: Hi! Many laptops this days miss home/end and other keys. My Dell laptop has the following "hidden" keys: - Fn+LEFT : HOME - Fn+RIGHT : END - Fn+B : PAUSE/BREAK - Fn+S : scroll-lock - Fn+R : print-screen Perhaps yours also have some hidden Fn "combo" keys? Have Fun! None of those are functional with my laptop. I'm slowly starting to remap the F keys. But thanks for the tip ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted May 4, 2022 Author Share Posted May 4, 2022 Done. START/SELECT/OPTION/RESET/HELP/HOME all re-mapped. I'm a happy camper now ! Thanks everyone ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 (edited) On a similar note windows 10//11 users can install the latest Powertoys and access the keyboard manager where you can remap any key to any other key or key combo - so if you lack F keys (like my lounge Logitech keyboard) you can remap them - I mapped F1 etc to Shift-1 etc and ESC to § so it works with Altirra/Atari800 nicely. You can map keys across all apps or for just specific apps - so I have F1 (Shift-1) cross mapped to a different f-key for each emulator so it works as START in BOTH emulators for instance - as I launch through a frontend and never see which emulator is running which game... sTeVE Edited May 5, 2022 by Jetboot Jack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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