[Graham]

Good evening gang. I'm hoping someone can give this a look and help me determine if this is user error or a MegaZeux bug, or just my computer messing with me. I spent most of yesterday and today trying to figure out why pressing up+right+space let my game character shoot, but the other arrow key combinations (up/left, down/right, down/left) + space did not yield a result. This glitch followed me from my game to this test game here, using some counters and a string I was using in my game. I'm using different code in this game (using subroutines here) but the result is the same as my game. You can change code around, or comment out some lines to narrow down the possibilities, and you still get the same result. What gives?
 shooty.mzx (13.48K)
Number of downloads: 46

Edit: I replaced my counters and string with the actual key counter (key#) and I get the same result. it fails to detect the other directions + space
 shooty2.mzx (14.03K)
Number of downloads: 44

This post has been edited by Graham: 08 January 2019 - 05:45 AM

[Dr Lancer-X]

Create this robot:

: "l"
* "&key72& &key75& &key77& &key80& &key57&"
wait for 1
goto "l"

What does it say when you hold down up+left+shoot, down+left+shoot, down+right+shoot etc.?

I suspect the problem is your keyboard. Try plugging another one in. Many keyboards have certain patterns of keys that do not work at the same time, and sometimes that means something absurd like not being able to hold down two directions and space.

You can also grab a keyboard testing program or visit a site like http://en.key-test.ru/ to verify it's not an MZX problem.

[Lachesis]

This sounds like a keyboard issue but I'll give your file a look in a sec. Edit: second file definitely works for all directions with my keyboard.

This post has been edited by Lachesis: 08 January 2019 - 05:59 AM

[Graham]

oh wow, yeah, it's the keyboard I'm using. Thanks for the help!