Retro Games The C64 Mini, User Manual

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USB KEYBOARDS
USB peripherals are only registered by THEC64 Mini whilst you are on the HOME screen, so to use a
USB keyboard, connect to an unoccupied USB port before you launch a game from the HOME screen.
THEC64 Mini supports the following USB keyboard layouts:
• US QWERTY
• UK QWERTY
• French AZERTY
• Italian QWERTY
• German QWERTZ
• Spanish QWERTY
Go to the OPTIONS beneath the GAMES CAROUSEL on the HOME screen and select the
icon for changing system settings. Now choose the ‘USB keyboard’ option and then choose
the appropriate layout for your keyboard, e.g. UK for a UK QWERTY keyboard.
See
CHAPTER 4
for more information on the HOME screen.
After making your selection, press the
☰
button to return to the previous screen.
When you connect a USB keyboard to THEC64 Mini, you gain access to all the keys present on the
original C64 computer.
For letters, numbers and punctuation just press the usual keys on your USB keyboard. The C64 function
keys are also replicated by pressing the usual function keys, e.g. for F1 press F1 and so on. However,
modern keyboards don’t have all of the keys present on the original C64 keyboard:
Original C64 key USB keyboard equivalent
RESTORE
TAB
RUN/STOP
Esc
C=
Windows key / Command (
⌘
)
Grave accent key (to the left of 1)
^ (Shift+6)
A complete listing of the keyboard mapping is available at
www.thec64.com/keyboard
. This is
useful when you are using C64 BASIC and want to access the graphical symbols found on the original
C64 keys.