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Revision 1 (foft, 05/27/2018 08:00 PM) → Revision 2/4 (foft, 05/27/2018 08:06 PM)

h1. Keyboard mapping 

 My philophy was to create an Atari like experience, rather than map all the USB keys to the Atari equivalents. So the The keyboard is mapped to match the standard Atari keyboard layout, as far as possible.  

 Of course there layout. It assumes you are no CONSOL keys (Help/Start/Select/Option/Reset) on a mini-itx case (unless you add some via GPIO) so this has to be handled on the using either an ISO or ANSI keyboard. These are mapped to the F-keys. 

 Since the Atari keyboard layout is not the same as a USB keyboard layout, some keys will say one thing and do another. I highly recommend buying stickers from here: https://www.4keyboard.com/commodore/591-2840-commodore-atari-non-transparent-keyboard-stickers.html. 
 
 https://www.4keyboard.com/commodore/591-2840-commodore-atari-non-transparent-keyboard-stickers.html 
 For an ISO keyboard: 
 !http://www.64kib.com/autobuild/keyboard.JPG! 

 Steve (917k) added support for ISO keyboards. It is basically the same except some of the arrow keys moved around, since there are not enough keys for the Atari style layout.