Could the Test Drive 2 slave be patched to support keyboard?

psoma · 19 July 2020, 00:16

Hi all,

So there are two games I cannot get to grips on driving with the joystick: Test Drive 2 and 4D Sports Driving. I suspect it’s as they were both written for other systems where keyboards were the primary input mechanism so the game has been tuned accordingly.

Mercifully, 4D Sports Driving supports keyboard control natively on the Amiga so it’s a blast to play, but not so TD2 (even though it does in the menu!)

Is arrow key support something that can be added through modifying the WHD slave??

Cheers,

Tom

DamienD · 19 July 2020, 00:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by psoma

Is arrow key support something that can be added through modifying the WHD slave??

Not as good as the slave being updated, but maybe you could use / set this before starting the slave: joy2key

psoma · 19 July 2020, 01:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Not as good as the slave being updated, but maybe you could use / set this before starting the slave: joy2key

Cheers, will give it a crack today!

jotd · 19 July 2020, 09:22

sorry that's not going to work, unless integrated in slave. and it needs os3.1. No. If you want such a feature, open a mantis issue (as always) http://mantis.whdload.de

psoma · 19 July 2020, 10:57

Thanks jotd... will do. Initially, I just wanted to know if it was something that *could* be done, but I'll take your recommendation of creating a Mantis ticket as "yes"

psoma · 19 July 2020, 11:08

Issue 4770 raised.

jotd · 19 July 2020, 16:08

of course it can be done. We adapted controls of lots of games already.

psoma · 21 July 2020, 03:14

Sweet. Legends

psoma · 11 September 2021, 14:19

Have just seen this has been implemented - thanks JOTD!!

19 July 2020, 00:16	#1
psoma Registered User Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 193	Could the Test Drive 2 slave be patched to support keyboard? Hi all, So there are two games I cannot get to grips on driving with the joystick: Test Drive 2 and 4D Sports Driving. I suspect it’s as they were both written for other systems where keyboards were the primary input mechanism so the game has been tuned accordingly. Mercifully, 4D Sports Driving supports keyboard control natively on the Amiga so it’s a blast to play, but not so TD2 (even though it does in the menu!) Is arrow key support something that can be added through modifying the WHD slave?? Cheers, Tom

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19 July 2020, 09:22	#4
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,162	sorry that's not going to work, unless integrated in slave. and it needs os3.1. No. If you want such a feature, open a mantis issue (as always) http://mantis.whdload.de

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psoma Registered User Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 193	Thanks jotd... will do. Initially, I just wanted to know if it was something that could be done, but I'll take your recommendation of creating a Mantis ticket as "yes"

19 July 2020, 11:08	#6
psoma Registered User Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 193	Issue 4770 raised.

19 July 2020, 16:08	#7
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,162	of course it can be done. We adapted controls of lots of games already.

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11 September 2021, 14:19	#9
psoma Registered User Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 193	Have just seen this has been implemented - thanks JOTD!!

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