Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:20:08 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: keyboard handlers?
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Lars S. Loevlie wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if I have to make this mysterious "something"
> called a keyboard handler to take keyboard input in any game? Is there
> any other way to increment a variable WHILE checking for keyboard input
> but letting the "show go on" if there is none??

If your game is simple enough, you can use library functions like kbhit() 
and _bios_keybrd() to check for keypresses without waiting.  Check out 
the library reference for these functions.