Home Page Forums MAME MAME A question about Thayer's Quest

Yeah, it's been 9 years now, it's OK to get used to the idea that there are computers in MAME :-)

I mean, you already see it every time you press Scroll Lock and it doesn't annoy you there.

Nobody said that it isn't effectively annoying in places, but pushing it at startup time is not the solution (assuming popmessage even cooperates mind you).

"Let's make this annoying situation for a limited number users even more annoying for even more users"

Guess I'm way more tolerant to pop up messages than the average MAME user, oh well.

That 'Kbd BLOQ DESPL' is hilarious. Oh yeah make another random abbreviation for something that isn't documented anywhere LOL!
MAME is a complex and advanced program and the user is expected to either know how to use it or learn how to use it. Either by watching tutorials on youtube or reading documentation (including the source code).
As soon as you notice none of the keys are working or doing what they are expected to do it's an immediate clue that it's in 'computer keyboard mode'. On my laptop I remap the scroll lock key to the mostly useless Windows key using a little-known free program called SharpKeys.
I'm sure some similar program would be available on MacOS.
A quick 1 second google reveals there is one called 'Karabiner Elements'.

On the Mac we take advantage of macOS mapping Fn+Delete to the "forward Delete" key that would be next to "End" above the arrows on a full size keyboard. So the default is friendly for both setups. We should probably investigate what we can do that's similar on PCs given laptops greatly outsell desktop PCs now. Supposedly most PC laptops also have Fn-Backspace generate the forward Delete key which would allow us to even the playing field for everyone but that needs testing, especially on Linux.

I just tested Fn+Backspace on my laptop and it does nothing. Within a browser it goes back one page of viewing history. Within SharpKeys when pressing Fn+Backspace it shows "Web: Back (E0_6A)"
So Fn+Backspace is available.
Fn+\ also does nothing but isn't remappable with SharpKeys.
Maybe add an additional setting in the ini under "# OSD INPUT MAPPING OPTIONS" for 'uimodekey_laptop' with the default set to Fn+Backspace?
It could be enabled by default too since Fn doesn't exist on a external PC keyboard.

Most PC notebooks still have a dedicated forward delete key since Windows Explorer is pretty dependent on it. It’s usually somewhere toward the right of the function key row.

(You need to be careful pressing Fn+random keys on PC notebooks. Fn+PgDn is often sleep or hibernate which can be very inconvenient, and there’s often a “lights out mode” combo that may make the screen impossible to read.)

Laptop Fn functions are always shown on the keys. On my Toshiba Fn+PgDn does nothing, as does Fn+Home,PgUp and End. Nothing. And yes Hibernate and Sleep are active on this laptop. I'm almost always hibernating since then the laptop boots up in about 5 seconds and brings me back to where I was in my last session.
Hibernate and Sleep are set in Windows within the Control Panel power options. There shouldn't be any other Fn+ settings for Hibernate or other automatic Hibernate/Sleep defaults.