Can't type the '+' character on PET 8296 (and other keyboard mapping woes)

[LeifBloomquist]

I'm trying to use petterm 5.0 on my PET 8296 and Stupid PET Tricks wifi modem and it's soo close!

I'm assuming I should be using petterm80B.prg - (I tried petterm80G.prg just in case, and the keyboard didn't work at all)

So the command to get into the Wifi settings is 'at+config' but I can't type the + character. I get a '|' instead.

Other mismatched mappings:

[ gives ]
\ gives @ 
@ gives [
] gives ;
; gives \

All the other keys seem to work as expected. Would there need to be a special version for the 8296 keyboard, or as there something else I could try?

[LeifBloomquist]

I've created a fork with a new keyboard mapping for the PET 8296 that fixes this issue. I'll submit a pull request once I've tested it a little more.

master...LeifBloomquist:PETTERM:8296-keyboard

[LeifBloomquist]

Pull Request submitted.

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[ChartreuseK]

Sorry for not replying sooner. I didn't realize the 8296 actually uses a different keyboard mapping. I had assumed that the business and graphics keyboards were the only ones in use. Really starting to get crazy with the number of different compiled versions now for each machine.

[LeifBloomquist]

Right. In theory you could have one executable that contains all the mappings and detects the PET model at startup (somehow)? but this approach keeps the binaries small.

[bozimmerman]

Actually, I've been experimenting with PETTERM 0.5 on both an 8032 and 2001-32B the last few days, and in BOTH cases, the + sign is not available on its normal key. Instead, I have to press shift-] . In other words, this might be all US business keyboards?