Re: A86: Down and left arrow bug


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Re: A86: Down and left arrow bug



 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Von Dollen <warn@mail.geocities.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Friday, September 19, 1997 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Down and left arrow bug



How do you disable the interrrupts


>Disabling the interrupts prevents this.
>
> -Andrew
>
>At 09:45 PM 9/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>I've noticed that when you press the down and left arrow keys at the
>>same time on the 86, that it freezes the calc temporarily.  It doesn't
>>do this on the 85 so I'm assuming this is a bug of some sort.  The
>>reason this is of concern of course is that that eliminates the
>>possibility of games with 8-directional control. (like some of those
>>side or top scrolling space shoot-em-up's on the 85).  Anyways.. this
>>happens no matter where you are in the calc: shell, graphing, and ASM
>>programs.  The exception is Penguins.  What is the deal here?  Is this
>>because Penguins uses its own function for checking keypresses instead
>>of the built in one?
>>
>>Chris
>>-------------------------
>>chrisg@nauticom.net
>>
>>"Windows95 sucks less... Linux doesn't suck"
>
>