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Title: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: BigDaddyE on July 02, 2009, 06:37:16 pm

My daily post for problem solving!

What is the easiest way to key map with the z26?

I read an old post that says it automatically maps, which it did, however, the player 1 and 2 buttons are all over my cp.

Ideas?

Thanks!

Eric

PS, I think I may have this thing done for the 4th party! Still will be incomplete, but very playable. I hope to put pics up on Saturday. Couldn't have done it without this community! Thanks! :cheers:

Title: Re: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: BigDaddyE on July 02, 2009, 09:53:41 pm

Is there any documentation out there giving the assigned number to each key?

I can't find anything.

Thanks again.

Eric

Title: Re: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: bungy on July 02, 2009, 10:22:15 pm

You can try using AutoHotKey.  But I think I tried that and it doesn't work.  On my system, I have a version of z26 that I modified and compiled myself.  The source code is available here:  http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html.  I compile it with MinGW on windows xp.  Some of it is in assembly and some in C, luckily the parts you're looking for are in C.

Title: Re: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: BigDaddyE on July 03, 2009, 12:00:44 am

Wow.

This scares me!

No idea what I'm looking for, pretty intense though!

Eric

Title: Re: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: unclet on July 03, 2009, 07:12:59 am

There is a hacked version of z26 emulator which allows for key mappings via an INI file, so this is probably what you want.

   -  Go to the following site:

           http://www.emuchrist.org/cpviewer/applications.htm (http://www.emuchrist.org/cpviewer/applications.htm)

   - Under the "Emulators" section, click on the "Atari 2600 - Z26 ver. 2.13 (jfath)" link to download it.


As an extra bit of information, here is a PDF file I found relating to z26, although I never looked into yet, but thought I would mention it.

     http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.pdf (http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.pdf)


I remember I started using z26 as the Atari2600 emulator but change to use the "Stella" emulator instead.  Have you tried the Stella emulator?

    http://stella.sourceforge.net/ (http://stella.sourceforge.net/)


Anyway, good luck

Title: Re: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: Congui on July 03, 2009, 08:11:00 am

There is also a version that already has the mame key mappings (no need for an ini file), which is the version I use.  You can find it at
http://www.whimsey.com/z26/Z26V213X.ZIP  (same site mentioned by Unclet)

Cheers, :cheers:
Congui

Title: Re: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: unclet on July 03, 2009, 08:29:37 am

This might be the same as what I mentioned earlier ... "Atari 2600 - Z26 ver. 2.13"

I would assume z26 was updated to use an INI file and the default contents on the INI file are the MAME defaults.

Title: Re: Any help with key mapping for z26?
Post by: BigDaddyE on July 06, 2009, 01:46:34 pm

Got it fixed.

Thanks for everyone's input!

Eric