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20th March, 2007 at 06:00:02 -

Hey gise.

This is kind of computer specific because I tried this on other PC's and it works but it doesn't on my own

I was testing out an 8 directional shooter (using the arrow keys to move) and was holding fire, which was CTRL (I use the left one) and realised that I couldn't turn in the top-left direction while holding LEFT-CTRL.

I switched over to numpad for movement and it works. Also I can use the RIGHT-CTRL key and it'll turn but not the left key.

It's not the engine because I tried some other 8-directioners and none of them let me turn properly!!

Plz HELP!!! Anyone else have this problem?

 
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20th March, 2007 at 17:23:42 -

Your keyboard must not support your combination of keys.

 
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20th March, 2007 at 17:42:22 -

That's right, you'll find some keyboards can't handle certain combinations of keys at a time (called 'keyboard clash' in the ancient DOS days). My old one couldn't handle down+left+any key at a time, which was pretty annoying, so I had to use IKJL as my arrow keys most of the time.

 
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20th March, 2007 at 19:17:40 -

Ouch. My arrows all cooperate, but the letters don't always. It's because of the matrix of how they are wired. I guess you could have a super-wirey 2-wires-per-key scheme, which would allow as many keypresses as your interface allows, but would be a pain to wire.

 
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