From: "B Gillhespy" <inbox AT magma DOT nospam DOT force9 DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: ALLEGRO BUG
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:02:55 +0100
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Mark Kiejna wrote in message <6panjs$o3d AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>...
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>
>Uh, I don't know why exactly no has responded to this
>possible serious bug in the new Allegro joystick API
>routines from the May 30 diff patch for Allegro 3.0
>
<snipped due to increasingly annoying ISP>
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>The problem has been noticed in demo.exe and ex27.exe
>The left direction on the control pad/joystick does
>not register. It is not a simple calibration problem
>either!

>

I have a four button gamepad, and a P200...when I tried to add joystick to
my game when it was running in excess of 100fps it certainly didn't register
left on the joystick. This was ALlegro 3, no wip.

I assume that if I tried again now with the fps around 30 I'm sure I'd have
better results...

The PC just hasn't time to poll the joystick at such high frame rates.  It's
not a bug.

Barry Gillhespy
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