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--- Quote from: BadMouth on April 19, 2013, 09:49:58 am ---I have no idea why people refuse to switch away from the crappy default keys. :dunno --- End quote --- As far as MAME goes, it was done this way for a very good reason. It speaks volumes about their understanding of what was necessary to make the user experience as good as it could be. With a standard USB keyboard, there is a 6 simultaneous keypress limit. But there is one group of keys which are not counted in that group, and they are LEFT CONTROL, RIGHT CONTROL, LEFT ALT, RIGHT ALT, LEFT SHIFT, RIGHT SHIFT, MENU and WINDOWS Keys. These are handled by a bitmapped report, so are actually even somewhat more efficiently handled than others. PS/2 keyboards don't have this limitation, but most PS/2 encoders, like the KeyWiz, will use these defaults to maintain compatibility with MAME defaults, in order to make configuration a bit simpler. The keys they decided to use aren't "crappy". It's just programmers who don't understand these things, and don't properly support their use, who make it seem that way ;) RandyT |
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