To assign joystick buttons to Spectrum keyboard key presses, joystick

directional movement or the main joystick fire button

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.

  2. Click the Joystick tab and click Configure Button Mappings for either Player 1 or Player 2.

  3. Click the button in the list whose keyboard mapping you want to change.

  4. Choose one of:

    • Press the key on the keyboard you want to assign.

    • Move the joystick in the direction you want to assign.

    • Press the same button again to map it to the main fire button.

Tip

  • You can also press the actual button on the game controller whose keyboard mapping you want to change, rather than clicking the button in the list.

  • To map the directional controls to the Spectrum keyboard, use the Comcon programmable joystick interface.

Note

  • You can only assign keys that appear on the 48k Spectrum keyboard to joystick buttons. In particular, convience keys that map to more than one Spectrum key in Spectaculator cannot be chosen.