Atari800MacX - where is the "/" key?

[Heaven/TQA]

I am just packing and linking the next Gridrunner release but I can not find the "/" key mapped in Atari800MacX emulator? I have an iMac and the small mac keyboard... where the hell is the key? I need to append 2 files and would do that in Dos 2.5 simply by copy file1, file2/a

[spookt]

Hmm, I guess we have different keyboards then. On my Mac the / key is right where it should be, under the question mark ('?') key.

 

Just tried it in Atari Basic and it works fine. On a UK keyboard that's the key next to the right shift key. Do you have a German K/B?

[Heaven/TQA]

yup. german keyboard... and the small "notebook" one...

[spookt]

I switched my layout to German and used the Keyboard Viewer and when I hit the key to the right of the zero key I get the forward slash. (Sorry - can't remember from 20 years ago in German lessons what that character is called - looks like ß) Does that work for you?

[atarimac]

Guys,

It looks like a bug. It should be Shift-7 on a German keyboard, but unfortunately, that returns a Question mark instead. I looked at the code, and the SDLK_Slash returns AKEY_SLASH + Shift, when it should only be AKEY_SLASH. I can't believe that one hasn't been found before now.

The problem is my code base is not real stable, I was adding the Austin-Frankin 80 col card support from Atari800, and I've never finished it. I've had very little time for my Atari hobby between work and house things in the last few months. I'll try to get it sorted out in the next few days if I can, Heaven/TQA, I'll let you know when I have a version for you to try.

 

Thanks,

Mark

[Heaven/TQA]

aaag... ok... first thought it's me... so the keyboard viewer is a workaround?

[atarimac]

Yes, you could use the keyboard viewer until I get it worked out, as it should show the slash key from the keypad. (Unless it doesn't do that for the small keyboard, I don't have a way of checking that).

[dwhyte]

...Sorry - can't remember from 20 years ago in German lessons what that character is called - looks like ß...

 

It's been about the same amount of time since I studied German in school, but wasn't it called the 'sharfes s' or something along those lines?

[Heaven/TQA]

yup.... scharfes S