From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2002-12-10 13:54:01
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:33:40PM +0100, MagerValp wrote:
> Keep in mind that there are three possible modes on C= computers: no
> keys, all keys, or just some keys (space, cursors, del).
I would suggest to ignore that. What we are doing here (as with colors in text
mode) is mapping the different modes available on some platforms into a
(usually smaller) number of virtual modes that are identical and easier to
use. For text mode this means that we have two models: Color and monochrome.
Then Atari is somewhere in between, so it has to be mapped to the monochrome
model. With keyboard repeat it's a similar thing, the modes here are: Have
keyboard repeat or don' have it. If we start to add special modes for special
machines, this gets unmanageable very fast.
Using an subset of all available modes is usually a much better idea than
trying to design an API so that it allows all features from all machines.
Speaking about keyboard repeat: The Atari800 killed the repeat function of my
X session. Annoying! And it doesn't run either: Asked thousands of questions
and does not find the ROMs. Am I really expected to enter the full path for
each of the twenty ROMs it needs? It seems that my luck with this emulator is
very limited:-(
Regards
Uz
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Ullrich von Bassewitz uz_at_musoftware.de
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