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From: demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu (Yung D. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: What's wrong, Keen or Tandy?
Keywords: Commander Keen Tandy 1000TL EGA Paradise
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.060847.5079@iitmax.iit.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 06:08:47 GMT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
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Hello Netlanders around the world.

Well here's the problem:  I was running Commander Keen for the first time...
it loads, runs, but then it detects a joystick.  Now, I do have a joystick
port since my computer is a Tandy 1000 TL, but I have no joysticks connected.
When the opening screen is on, there was no way to enter input -- that is,
the keyboard froze or when I did have the joystick in, it didn't work.

Now, some of you are wondering, why is this nut playing an EGA game on a
Tandy-graphics system...well, I just happen to have an EGA card, specifically
the Paradise Autoswitch 480 EGA card.  Before running Keen, I've had no
problems with it -- no compatibility problems, and from that same author
that made Keen, I ran Captain Comic with no problems.

So, what's the problem?  Me, the Tandy, the EGA card, the program Keen (game
actually), or a combination of the above?

Please tell me if anyone knows...

Thanks,

Yung D. Kim


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