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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Terrorpods
Message-ID: <22713@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 22 Jan 88 13:33:06 GMT
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In article <3180@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
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|I can understand some of these game companies bypassing some of the OS
|(not that it's the correct to do, ever) to maybe push graphics or something
|to it's limit.  But the keyboard?  That's already going faster than I can
|type....

I can think of a great reason to want to bypass that... keyboard.device does
a very long Disable().  Not nice for high speed serial work, for example.

A game writer often wants to "take over the machine" so "nobody and nothing
else will interfere".  I don't agree this is needed, but I can understand
the feeling.

Also, Live! has to do it's own keyboard stuff to keep up with it's funky
software fram grabbing.  At least they did it correctly... they got the
source to the keyreading from Commodore Technical Support.  This 
avoids the trap Psygnosis fell into. 

|\ /|  . Ack! (NAK, SOH, EOT)
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