Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!cs.widener.edu!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: <982@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 20 Mar 91 07:48:09 GMT References: <1499.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <54c4y1w164w@kennels.actrix.gen.nz> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 31 In article <54c4y1w164w@kennels.actrix.gen.nz> sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) writes: >jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: >> Quoted from <971@cbmger.UUCP> by peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY): >> > In article <12014@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: >> >> > >Not that I am trying to say the Amiga is any better -- to cancel an Amiga >> > >requester, you can hit the box (which is nice), or you can use >> > >Amiga-B (which is not intuitive either). > >> Hm. I thought it was because they were close to the C= key, and >> on the front row of the keyboard. Same goes for N and M, which flip >> the Workbench screen around. This is only an issue for the choice which key to add to the Amiga key(s). But the principle is to use weird Amiga-key-combinations. >Speaking of such, is it possible to make both Amiga keys work the same? > >I don't know of many circumstances where I want them to be different, but'I do >know of some where I want them to be the same. Oh, you must take a look at 2.0! We now have many more menu items with key shortcuts, and they all use Amiga keys. There's some official guideline for which Amiga key for what purpose (can't remember details), but there was a real struggle between developers and engineering about which Amiga key should be used for Shell window copy/paste. So we definitely need both, and with different function. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk