Powball gives every indication of starting up correctly and all, but there's a problem... Before it'll start, it wants to be fed a keystroke. Typing at the console has no effect, nor does typing with the focus on it's window. Is there any way to pass it a character via the command line invocation or something?
Am Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 07:52:47PM -0800 schrieb Erik Keever:> Powball gives every indication of starting up correctly and all, but > there's a problem... Before it'll start, it wants to be fed a keystroke. > Typing at the console has no effect, nor does typing with the focus on > it's window.I got it working very easily. From my config: ; PowBallDX [AppDefaults\\PowBallDX.exe\\x11drv] "Desktop" = "640x480" "Managed" = "Y" "PerfectGraphics" = "Y" [AppDefaults\\PowBallDX.exe\\DllOverrides] "ddraw" = "" Donwloaded from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ant-man/download/powball.exe. I did not have to enter keystokes. Just point with the mouse into the window and start! One question: Is it normal that the program has only this very limited screen resolution (less than 640x480)? A little bit small for todays monitors. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"
Am Mo, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:17:08 -0800 schrieb Erik Keever:> And at that point, I can't figure out how to give it a key and have to > hit ^C. All the wierd characters are because it uses the old DOS keymap. > The version you pointed me to looks like the same thing except using SDL > rather than writing bytes to video memory. > > And yes, in Dos/windows it will switch your monitor to 320x240 > fullscreen. It's from 1995, ok! :) Would I be better off with dosemu or > something?Perhaps. Or give a download location for others to test. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"