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From: d88-jwa@alv.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
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Subject: Re: Game input -- Bypassing GetNextEvent
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In-reply-to: deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu's message of 4 May 91 22:48:42 GMT

In article <> deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ben Haller) writes:

   because then one can patch the access routines... :->  But since patching
   for such purposes is generally considered *worse* than using low-memory
   globals, why call GetKeys?

Because GetKeys is supported under A/UX, and KeyMap is not. Simple.

I know of at least one major action game (as yet unpiblished) that
runs well under A/UX (only losing a few frames of animation now & then)
so I guess that's the kind of compatibility you can demand these days.

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