Talk:The Ur-Quan Masters Technical FAQ

I just noticed that I didn't fill in the name of the check box to prevent the window from closing in the "When trying to start the game, I get a DOS box flashing on my screen, and nothing else (on Windows)" section. Could someone on an English version of Windows XP check the name and fill this in please. -- SvdB 20:13, 14 Nov 2004 (CET)

The "When I press multiple keys at the same time, some keys won't be recognised" entry looks wrong. The link in that entry, while interesting, doesn't seem to indicate a problem faced by modern keyboards (or any keyboards that wern't made at home with parts from Radio Shack, for that matter). If I recall correctly, the problem is a software issue with the Operating System, which ignores keypresses if three or more of a cluster of keys are pressed, i.e. because your cat just stepped on it, or you fell and your hand landed on the keyboard, or you dropped something on it. When this happens, no further keypresses are registered, and if this goes on for several seconds, a beeping noise is made by the computer. IIRC, the only workaround (in the manual or the readme (I think)), is to rebind your keys to something different, supposedly keys that aren't so close together.

Then again, this feature might have been implemented first in windows. Either way, I don't think it's a hardware issue (at least not the one referred to in the article by the web link).

This problem would occur if you were thrusting, turning, and firing or using the special weapon at the same time, and the keys were in conflict. Or some other occasion where you have to press three or more buttons at the same time. In fact, the Keys utility in the original PC version had a test feature that showed if all your keypresses registered. If any key you pressed didn't show up, there was a conflict. Tssha 11:53, 21 Dec 2004 (CET)