🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, hello all.

I am just starting out trying to write a small little arcade style game
in DOS, yes I know it would be a hell of a lot easier with an amiga but
oh well.

Anyways I have a problem, all i want to do is use the keyboard for
movement of a guy on the screen, however the input is just so slow....

Really simple, if you hold down an arrow key I want the guy to go that
direction until you let go of the key.

right now I am using int 21h service 0xb to test if there is input and
then int 16h service 0 to get it.

However I ran a profiler on the code and found that it was spending 75%
plus of its time in the int service !!! (for holding the key down
continuously ) and the man just crawls across the screen . and its not
the drawing routines since they all are amounting to about 10% of the
time total for all drawing routines to the screen.

So how in the hell do I get it to check the keyboard faster?

Thanks, this is really annoying.

Troy
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