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Re: More responsive keyboard

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> May 17, 2000
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On 18 May 2000, at 7:48, Aidan Bindoff wrote:

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From:                   Aidan Bindoff <abindoff at ONE.NET.AU>
Subject:                More responsive keyboard
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> Is someone able to tell me how I could make the keyboard more
> responsive? In most games that I've seen, if you hold down a key it
> doesn't trigger once, then wait, then fire off at a certain frequency.
> Am I correct in thinking that the OS has something to do with this,
> and that there is a simple trick for stopping it happening? Thanks,

I know only about dos, but in dos you can configure the pause and
the repeat rate as you like it. Use the dos mode command. There is
a help for it, at the dos prompt, type:

 help mode

Kat