Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!vaxb.york.ac.UK!SOCS18 From: SOCS18@vaxb.york.ac.UK (Vision Newspapers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: The Phantom Typist Message-ID: <9002170704.AA25296@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 16 Feb 90 22:14:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 I don't think the phantom typist is not caused by the ST missing a 'key released' signal. If you turn off all interrupts and then move the mouse, the ST behaves as if it has received _lots_ of keypresses. It doesn't slow typing down as reported. I've never seen 'The Phantom Typist'. What has happened to me in First Word Plus, using a disk based versiuon of TOS 1.4 (8/8/88 version), is that the program simply locks up while I'm typing quickly. No chances to save, it's gone. This may be a problem with my old copy of TOS 1.4, but until I can buy some ROMs from Atari UK.... Mat. *********************************************************************** * c/o Dept. Computer Science * "Baldrick, fetch me a turkey _so * * University of York * big_, you'd have thought its mother * * Heslington * had been rodgered by an omnibus" * * York * * * YO1 5DD * JANET : SOCS18@uk.ac.york.vaxa * ***********************************************************************