Winuae - Key mapping

[5play]

Hi People, many thanks for everyones help in setting up winuae through gameex. We've learned a lot.

Ok, me and my lad have built an arcade cabinet, and following instructions, have managed to hack a keyboard, and wire this to two joysticks and buttons on our arcade cabinet. It works great! You can map your keys in mame, and so everything works fine.

I read on a few posts that you CAN'T map your keys in winuae! Is this right? If so, does this mean its not possible to use our keyboard hack to link with a key configuration in winuae!? I'm confused - and I can't get much out of the winuae menu, as I don't really understand what its asking me :0(

I have heard I can get WHDload which does it - but its taken us weeks to get this far, and I'd rather not go into something else....Unless we have to!

Any help we'd be grateful for!

Cheers

[bkenobi]

You may not be able to map keys in a given program, but with enough desire, ANYTHING is possible. In this case, you have a hard coded keyboard mapping which is a bit inconvenient to rewire for each emulator. I would suggest looking into using AI or AHK to remap the keys for each non-mappable emulator. I don't know AI, but for AHK, you simply use the following:

a::z
s::x
d::c

which will remap a, s, and d to z, x, and c. You get the idea anyway...

I would suggest adding logic that checks for the specific program you are running too, then you can have a single compiled script running in the background and not have to worry about launching a specific one and killing it afterwards.

[5play]

Thankyou!

I am using Headcaze's winuaeloader to play games, but have a separate folder of demos and games in .adf format, which I want to run through winuae, and not via the loader.

So really I'd like to know where I can download the programmes you mentioned from?

I'd also like some advice on how to start up the programme with winuae, and close it down with winuae!

Cheers!

[bkenobi]

AHK = AutoHotKey

AI = AutoIt

Both are free and have dedicated and very active forums.