kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) (04/06/91)
Any other OIDS owners out there notice that the keyboard appears to get stuck, or even worse, not respond when a key is pressed. For instance, there are times when I have died because I press the space bar for the shields to come on, and nothing happens, no shield and WHAM the missle kills me! I can't figure this out, because I will transfer over to a word processor start typing and everytime I press the spacebar (like magic) I get a space! So its not my keyboard, but the game OIDS itself, I think. I'm not going to start pointing a finger at OIDS unless I here that other OIDS owners are having the same problem... Another really annoying thing besides not having shields work consistently is sometimes, keys appear to get stuck, so for instance I'll press the key to make my ship rotate left, I'll then tap the key for thrust, and then find that both keys have stuck and thus I go careening (whilst spinning left) into a wall! Very frustrating! Besides that I love the game, I'm just curious if anyone else has encountered this behavior in OIDS even though their keyboards are well behaved otherwise.... Thanks in advance, Ken
tneu1@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Steve Linnerooth) (04/06/91)
In article <9104052350.aa28246@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>, kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) writes: >Any other OIDS owners out there notice that the keyboard appears to get >stuck...[stuff deleted]... for instance I'll press the key to make >my ship rotate left, I'll then tap the key for thrust, and then find that both >keys have stuck and thus I go careening (whilst spinning left) into a wall! > I have a friend with OIDS, and while we were playing it, the same thing happened to us. I quickly figured out (well...mostly remembered from the warning) that if you use the shift key as one of your controls, Easy Access will turn on and lock keys down. If you hit the <shift> key 5 times consecutively, Easy Access activates. Then any key you hit 2 times in a row will "lock". Personally I hate Easy Access, and haven't used it since I figured out what it was. If you've cheked into this, then I have no idea what's wrong, 'cause once we deactivated E.A., no more problems were to be had. -Steve. ```````````````````````````''''''''''''''''''''''''' ` Steve Linnerooth `' Iowa State University ' ` tneu1@ccvax.iastate.edu `' Ames, Iowa ' ```````````````````````````'''''''''''''''''''''''''
dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon) (04/07/91)
kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) writes: >Any other OIDS owners out there notice that the keyboard appears to get >stuck, or even worse, not respond when a key is pressed. For instance, >there are times when I have died because I press the space bar for the >shields to come on, and nothing happens, no shield and WHAM the missle kills >me! I can't figure this out, because I will transfer over to a word processor >start typing and everytime I press the spacebar (like magic) I get a space! >So its not my keyboard, but the game OIDS itself, I think. I'm not going >to start pointing a finger at OIDS unless I here that other OIDS owners are >having the same problem... >Another really annoying thing besides not having shields work consistently is >sometimes, keys appear to get stuck, so for instance I'll press the key to make >my ship rotate left, I'll then tap the key for thrust, and then find that both >keys have stuck and thus I go careening (whilst spinning left) into a wall! >Very frustrating! Besides that I love the game, I'm just curious if anyone else >has encountered this behavior in OIDS even though their keyboards are well >behaved otherwise.... >Thanks in advance, >Ken I have had Oids now for several months, have played it heavily, and have had no such problems. ? -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Dan Walkowski | To understand recursion, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. | you must first understand recursion. walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu |