Amigas had different keyboard layouts, so WinUAE re-purposes a couple of keys. Some to control emulation, some to emulate keys on Amiga keyboards that other systems do not have. Below is a description of standard mappings, but keys can be configured freely in the Input Configuration.

Shortcut Keys

Key/Combination

Description

F12

Show the WinUAE GUI

Shift + F12
End + F12

Bring up the GUI based debugger

Ctrl + F12

Switch to full-screen display

PrintScreen

Copy WinUAE's current screen to clipboard

End + PrintScreen

Save screenshot to a file

End + F5

Restore a machine snapshot file

Shift + End + F5

Save a machine snapshot file

Pause

Halt emulation

End + F1
End + F2
End + F3
End + F4

Select an ADF to be loaded into one of the four emulated disk drives

Shift + End + F1
Shift + End + F2
Shift + End + F3
Shift + End + F4

Eject a disk from one of the four emulated drives

End + J

Swap joystick ports

End + Insert

Insert text from host clipboard

Amiga Keys

Amiga Key

Mapped To Key(s)

Left AMIGA

Left Windows
Insert

Right AMIGA

Right Windows
App Menu / Context Menu
Home

HELP

Page Down on numerical keypad

Action Replay

If an ActionReplay module is configured, the FREEZE button will be mapped to Page Up on the numerical keypad

CDTV

If the host keyboard has multimedia keys, they will be used for their equivalent functions in CDTV emulation:

  • Stop
  • Pause
  • Previous Track
  • Next Track

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