Re: A gripe with all the Apple II emulators

["Darkcode1" <no-one@microsoft.com>]

Well, I have an example and a reason for this:
  Apple ][ & Apple ][+  had very wierd layouts compared to PC's, so why not
  map the apple keys to the pc's keys by mathcing the symbols.  If they
hadn't
  done this, I would forever be confused because i am more use to the pc
layout
  then with the old apple layout...  I just got an enhanced ][e and it is a
lot better
  compared to my old ][+  mainly due to the keyboard layout...

--JMHO,  philip

Simon Biber <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote in article
<dI5M5.8422$Tq6.79046@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> Every Apple II emulator I've tried (ApplePC, Apple II Oasis, XGS32,
> AppleWin) fails to emulate the keyboard properly. In my opinion the PC's
> Backspace key should be emulated as the Apple II's delete key. It's in
the
> same place, and in most word processors and applications it plays the
same
> purpose.
> 
> The only time where it's useful to have it pass as the left-arrow is in
> Basic. And even then it's not necessary because I'm accustomed to
reaching
> for the left-arrow instead of the Delete key on an Apple when I'm in
Basic.
> 
> But for most programs (GS-OS, Appleworks, and many others) it would be
much
> more useful to have it pass CHR$(127).
> 
> Simon.
> 
> 
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