Nokia promoting emulation on their new N900 device, look MSX!

No problem, since you're using subversion, I'll send the patches as attachments to keep the formatting correct; my mailer tries to be unnecessarily clever and mangles all white spaces not to mention cutting lines in inlined patches. For some odd reason git manages to bypass that problem. Anyway I'll try to do it tomorrow.

Well, it's like PC keyboards, some of the keys have different meanings and/or are located differently on different countries. So with N900 and openmsx, all keys that do not require special mappings will work as-is but the mode shifted keys are probably located differently -- just a guess, I haven't seen other keyboard layouts than the finnish one, but I doubt that the UK version for example would have å, ä or ö keys but instead something else. Some of the keys are of course the same, for example the fact that the Enter key on the N900 keyboard is in fact KP_ENTER I think remains the same in all layouts so the need for a key binding that converts KP_ENTER to ENTER is needed for non-finnish keyboard layouts too.

The stuff I did today was based on the HEAD, I did a full checkout of the complete openmsx repository and worked on top of the trunk folder.

Strangely enough, the kbd_numkeypad_enter_key setting seems to have no effect on the N900. And yes, the enter key works just fine in the console without any extra bindings, it's just that it doesn't work in the emulated MSX (even with the kbd_numkeypad_enter_key setting).

My current settings.xml looks like this (see below), it's not optimized for gaming because up/down arrows require the mode key. For games I guess it would be better to sacrifice some special keys like ä and ö on the keyboard and map them as arrows.

<!DOCTYPE settings SYSTEM 'settings.dtd'>
<settings>
  <settings>
    <setting id="fullscreen">true</setting>
    <setting id="resampler">fast</setting>
    <setting id="blur">0</setting>
    <setting id="scanline">0</setting>
  </settings>
  <bindings>
    <bind key="keyb KP_ENTER,RELEASE">keymatrixup 7 0x80</bind>
    <bind key="keyb E+CTRL,RELEASE">keymatrixup 6 0x80</bind>
    <bind key="keyb Q+CTRL,RELEASE">keymatrixup 6 0x20</bind>
    <bind key="keyb R+CTRL,RELEASE">keymatrixup 7 0x01</bind>
    <bind key="keyb T+CTRL,RELEASE">keymatrixup 7 0x02</bind>
    <bind key="keyb W+CTRL,RELEASE">keymatrixup 6 0x40</bind>
    <bind key="keyb BACKSPACE+MODE,RELEASE">keymatrixup 8 0x08</bind>
    <bind key="keyb KP_ENTER+MODE,RELEASE">keymatrixup 8 0x04</bind>
    <bind key="keyb RIGHT+MODE,RELEASE">keymatrixup 8 0x40</bind>
    <bind key="keyb LEFT+MODE,RELEASE">keymatrixup 8 0x20</bind>
    <bind key="keyb KP_ENTER">keymatrixdown 7 0x80</bind>
    <bind key="keyb E+CTRL">keymatrixdown 6 0x80</bind>
    <bind key="keyb Q+CTRL">keymatrixdown 6 0x20</bind>
    <bind key="keyb R+CTRL">keymatrixdown 7 0x01</bind>
    <bind key="keyb T+CTRL">keymatrixdown 7 0x02</bind>
    <bind key="keyb W+CTRL">keymatrixdown 6 0x40</bind>
    <bind key="keyb WORLD_69+CTRL">toggle console</bind>
    <bind key="keyb BACKSPACE+MODE">keymatrixdown 8 0x08</bind>
    <bind key="keyb A+MODE">type *</bind>
    <bind key="keyb D+MODE">type #</bind>
    <bind key="keyb G+MODE">type _</bind>
    <bind key="keyb H+MODE">type (</bind>
    <bind key="keyb J+MODE">type )</bind>
    <bind key="keyb L+MODE">type :</bind>
    <bind key="keyb S+MODE">type +</bind>
    <bind key="keyb X+MODE">type $</bind>
    <bind key="keyb KP_ENTER+MODE">keymatrixdown 8 0x04</bind>
    <bind key="keyb RIGHT+MODE">keymatrixdown 8 0x40</bind>
    <bind key="keyb LEFT+MODE">keymatrixdown 8 0x20</bind>
  </bindings>
</settings>

The key bindings are as follows in human readable form for those who don't remember MSX keyboard matrix by heart:

- N900 ENTER mapped to MSX ENTER
- N900 MODE+BACKSPACE mapped to MSX DELETE
- N900 MODE+ENTER mapped to MSX INSERT
- N900 CTRL+Å mapped to toggle console (i.e. CTRL and the key to the left of backspace on the N900 finnish keypad layout)
- N900 CTRL+Q,W,E,R,T mapped to MSX F1,F2,F3,F4,F5
- additional mappings for the finnish N900 keypad layout to produce correct characters in MSX (*,#, _, (, ), :, +, $, up/down arrows), these are not absolutely mandatory as you can get the same results by pressing MODE+SHIFT+key, it just so happens that for my bulky fingers it is getting a little bit difficult to press the N900 MODE+SHIFT+keys all together so I made it easier and now things work with just MODE+key

Another thing to remember perhaps is that when running openmsx fullscreen, you can access the N900 task switcher by pressing CTRL+BACKSPACE.

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I don't know I do not seem to have the password in any case. GOod that you just joined that list

openMSX is doing pretty fine

I guess I should build some new packages. But maybe jr can already help you easier now?