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OMF 2097: Action won't work

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First post, by mischa1981

Posted on 2007-12-30, 23:20

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Hi there,

I'm quite new to DosBox but I already made it work 😀
But my problem is the following:

I installed OMF 2097 and it works quite fine, although there are the sound issues, but that's not that bad. The worst is: When I try to hit my enemy by crouching and "leaning" left or right (depending on where my enemy is standing) and pressing the space bar, my character should perforum an action to "wipe" my enemy off his feet. I don't know how this action is called, but I hope you get what I mean.

I hope, you know an solution for that problem 😀
Thx, mike

Reply 1 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2007-12-30, 23:50

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Works fine here, does the roundhouse (left+foot key) work?
What dosbox version/OS are you using?

Reply 2 of 6, by red_avatar

Posted on 2007-12-31, 09:15

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Sounds like you got a crap keyboard. We used to have that problem a lot in the early 90s when cheap keyboard didn't accept input of several keys at once - and often it was only certain combinations that caused issues.

Reply 3 of 6, by mischa1981

Posted on 2007-12-31, 09:28

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wd wrote:
Works fine here, does the roundhouse (left+foot key) work?
What dosbox version/OS are you using?

yes, the roundhouse works fine.
DosBox is version 0.72.

red_avatar wrote:
Sounds like you got a crap keyboard. We used to have that problem a lot in the early 90s when cheap keyboard didn't accept input of several keys at once - and often it was only certain combinations that caused issues.

tu be true, I didn't think of that option. yes, it is a quite cheap keyboard for about 10 dollars maximum. maybe it really doesn't accept more input than 2 buttons at a time.

Reply 4 of 6, by doomer

Posted on 2008-01-01, 08:34

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red_avatar wrote:
Sounds like you got a crap keyboard. We used to have that problem a lot in the early 90s when cheap keyboard didn't accept input of several keys at once - and often it was only certain combinations that caused issues.

Yeah, I think that's the problem too. Some keyboards won't recognize three keys pressed simultaneously. It's a well-known issue.

Reply 5 of 6, by ADDiCT

Posted on 2008-01-01, 12:45

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For the record: the "two key limit" (and "three key limit") has nothing to do with "cheap" or "not cheap", it happens also on expensive, high quality keyboards. It's as if at random times, an engineer would say "screw it, the users are not going to use more than two keys at once anyway", and implement the limit. Maybe it's a plot to stop us from playing "Frets on Fire" without a guitar controller. (;

Reply 6 of 6, by Snover

Posted on 2008-01-01, 17:56

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See N-key rollover.

Yes, it’s my fault.

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