Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway
From: kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: OIDS problem
Message-ID: <9104052350.aa28246@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 91 07:51:09 GMT
Lines: 22

Any other OIDS owners out there notice that the keyboard appears to get
stuck, or even worse, not respond when a key is pressed.  For instance,
there are times when I have died because I press the space bar for the
shields to come on, and nothing happens, no shield and WHAM the missle kills
me! I can't figure this out, because I will transfer over to a word processor
start typing and everytime I press the spacebar (like magic) I get a space!
So its not my keyboard, but the game OIDS itself, I think.  I'm not going
to start pointing a finger at OIDS unless I here that other OIDS owners are
having the same problem...

Another really annoying thing besides not having shields work consistently is
sometimes, keys appear to get stuck, so for instance I'll press the key to make
my ship rotate left, I'll then tap the key for thrust, and then find that both
keys have stuck and thus I go careening (whilst spinning left) into a wall!

Very frustrating!  Besides that I love the game, I'm just curious if anyone else
has encountered this behavior in OIDS even though their keyboards are well
behaved otherwise....

Thanks in advance,

Ken