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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon)
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Subject: Re: OIDS problem
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Date: 6 Apr 91 18:48:20 GMT
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kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) writes:

>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


I have had Oids now for several months, have played it heavily, and have had
no such problems.  
?

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