hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) (10/19/88)
darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes: >I know I could have written a keymap for the Amiga, I doubt that a >novice could have (I suppose if he had heard of Amiga and knew an >Amiga programmer who could write a keymap, the story would have ended >differently). > There's a program out there called "SetKey" written by one Charles Carter (a very talented guy who has just had his "Hole in One Miniature Golf" game released by DigiTek). SetKey WAS a commercial endeavor by Charles but it basically went nowhere so he released it to the p/d. Designed for the A1000 keyboard, SetKey's purpose in life is to let even a novice make custom keymaps and save them back to disk. Its operating screen is a nicely rendered depiction of an A1000 keyboard... you just click any key (including a shifted, ctrld, or alt'd key) and enter the new mapping into a string gadget. Get everything the way you want it, then save the new map to disk and use a "Setmap Fookeys" in your startup sequence and whammo, remapped keys. SetMap's ARChive even includes a few premade keymaps including one to play Infocom games with (i.e.: the up-arrow cursor pad key has been remapped to spit out "Go North" when you hit it), one to make AmigaDOS ED friendlier, and a couple more. By the way, check out Piers Anthony's MACROSCOPE if you've never read it. A rather amazing book. Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone. Plink: CBM*HARV UUCP: {ames!elroy, <backbone>}!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser INET: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com <---open Push down while turning close tightly--->