If you click on a button of the right panel of
the DIGIblue SUITE-X theme,
you can change this appearance; in another words,
this status-bar is a multi-panels bar !
The CONTROL appearance
gives you a virtual keyboard and access to the
controls ports 1 and 2. Click on the virtual keys
in stead of pressing the real keys of your PC
keyboard !
You can also determine the speed of the Rensha
Turbo (or Autofire).
The blueMSX virtual keyboard is based on the
MSXturboR GT keyboard. It's the most complete
keyboard, as it includes 2 special keys, that are
only used by the intern software of this machine
(ST or GT variant).
However, the keyboard configuration is first
defined by the BIOS of the emulated machine.
You will find more explanations on the pages
related to a specific keyboard :
If you are interested by the different keyboard
matrices, check this website : http://map.grauw.nl/articles/keymatrix.php
The MSX keyboard is generally very similar to a
standard PC keyboard (the unique exception is the
Russian MSX keyboard). The typewrite keys are
almost the same as well as the numeric keypad.
The Caps key toggles bigger sized alphabet
characters (only in normal mode for Japanese,
Korean and Arabic machines).
The MSX keyboard has five physical function keys.
To access function key 6 to 10, you need to hold
down the SHIFT key and press one of the keys F1
to F5.
As some MSX keys don't exist on a PC keyboard,
the emulator makes also some adjustements to
support the complete MSX keyboard :
- the PC key before the "1" key is used
for emulate a MSX key on the third row
- the extrem right PC key on the third row is
used to emulate the extrem right MSX key on the
first row
Specific MSX keys are mapped to the following PC
keyboard keys :
| MSX
key |
|
PC key |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Select |
|
End |
|
Used in some games and
applications (it's also the case of the Esc
key). |
| Stop |
|
Page Up |
|
Allows to pause and resume a
task in the MSX-BASIC or MSX-DOS
environment. When you press this key
while holding the Ctrl key, the
current task will be abruptly broken. |
| Clr Home |
|
Home |
|
Allows to move the cursor to the
top left of the screen. If you press Shift
+ Clr Home, the screen will be
cleared. |
| Graph |
|
Left Alt |
|
Gives direct access to MSX-BASIC
commands (Arabic machines in Arabic
keyboard mode) or graphical characters (other
cases) by pressing it with a normal
character. Can be combined with Shift. |
| Code / Kana / Hangul / Arabic
/ Cyrillic (**) |
|
Right Alt |
|
Gives special characters by
pressing it with a normal character (Code)
or access to a different set of
characters (other cases). |
| Comma on numpad |
|
Page Down |
|
|
| Accent Mark / Slash /
Underscore / Question Mark (**) |
|
Right Ctrl (*) |
|
Allows to put an accent mark on
a vowel (Accent Mark) or
write the Slash character or Underscore
character or Question Mark character |
Most Panasonic MSX2+ machines and all
Panasonic MSXturboR machines have two special
Japanese keys, that allow in some programs to
validate or invalidate a choice.
| MSX
key |
|
PC key |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Iee |
|
Left Windows or Back
(Explorer) |
|
Invalidates the choice. |
| Hai |
|
Right Windows or Forward
(Explorer) |
|
Validates the choice. |
blueMSX uses also many keys or combinations of
keys for shortcuts,
that you can change in the Shortcuts Editor.
If the default mapping is source of problems, you
can change it in the keyboard section of the Input Editor.
(*) PC key after the "P"
for the French MSX keyboard; extrem
right PC key on the first row for the German MSX
keyboard
(**) Check the different specific keyboards !
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