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Started by vollidiot, Mar 25, 2026, 06:56 PM

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vollidiot

Hi,
it would be great if you could add some keyboard drivers for other countries than Finland - and english.
E.g. german, french, spanish, danish etc.
Otherwise it is always a little problem to test the OS.

Thanks.

samwdpckr

Hello!

I don't have a German keyboard, so I cannot create a German keymap. In the documentation there are instructions on how to create your own keymaps: http://sininenankka.dy.fi/leetos/docs/DOS/KEYMAPS.TXT

I also just now created an automatic tool that helps in creating new key mappings. It is in this DOSTOOLS.IMG image file under the subdirectory MKKEYMAP.

http://sininenankka.dy.fi/leetos/dostools.img

volldepp

I am no programmer, so I have no idea how to do program one.

BUT: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/xkeyb-1.90/
    - there are a lot of keyboard layouts for xkeyb - and the second
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/kpdos-3.1/ for keyb -(can be splitted to .kl files if I remembered right.)

Maybe kpdos: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/kpdos-2.5/kpdos25s.zip can help you

Thanks for reading