Re: What's wrong, Keen or Tandy?

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From: Matthew Smith
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 18:39

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In article <1991Jun22.060847.5079@iitmax.iit.edu> demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu (Yung D. Kim) writes:
>Hello Netlanders around the world.
>
>port since my computer is a Tandy 1000 TL, but I have no joysticks connected.
>When the opening screen is on, there was no way to enter input -- that is,
>the keyboard froze or when I did have the joystick in, it didn't work.
>
>Now, some of you are wondering, why is this nut playing an EGA game on a
>Tandy-graphics system...well, I just happen to have an EGA card, specifically
>the Paradise Autoswitch 480 EGA card.  Before running Keen, I've had no
>problems with it -- no compatibility problems, and from that same author
>that made Keen, I ran Captain Comic with no problems.
>
>So, what's the problem?  Me, the Tandy, the EGA card, the program Keen (game
>actually), or a combination of the above?

Probably the computer.  I've played Commander Keen, and didn't 
find anything wrong with it.  I also have a VGA card with the
Paradise chipset in it, and didn't have any compatability 
problems.

I hope you can get things figured out... I thought that it was a wonderful game!

Matt S mith
msmith@peruvian.utah.edu
University of Utah
Department of Computer Science

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