Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!lachac
From: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A-2000 keyboard problems??
Message-ID: <16244@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 17:39:40 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.16244
Posted: Wed Nov  4 17:39:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 17:36:48 EST
References: <1952@crash.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 26

In article <1952@crash.CTS.COM> artw@pnet01.cts.com (Art Weiss) writes:
>
>   I am posting this message for a friend of mine. He owns an A-2000 with a 2
>meg ram expansion and has noticed that when he runs Barbarian that the ESC key
>doesn't seem to work as it should. It's supposed to pause the game. When he
>told me about this I tried it out on my own 2000 (we both have REV 4.2 boards)
>and it was the same on mine.

Don't complain about the hardware, it's the programmers who are at fault here.
Psygnosis (sp?), the company that produces Barbarian (and Brataccus, and Arena
and Terrorpods) decided to go directly to hardware for keyboard control 
instead of using the guidelines set by CBM/Amiga.  The result? Well, since
the hardware calls are different on the A2000, the keyboard doesn't work.

Call the company and complain (of course calling Britain might not be
worth it  :-)





-- 
		"Truth is false and logic lost..."
					- Neil Peart
	(who at the time didn't realize he was talking about RU)
lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu <--------OR--------> {seismo|ames}!rutgers!topaz!lachac