🚀 go-pugleaf

I was thinking of trying to rewrite some arcade game type programs
that I have written for various 'toy' computers for a Sun4. (Defender on a  
large screen would be pretty neat!)

To get the speed I want to write at a fairly low level so I use the  
pixrect routines to write to the screen. Is there an equivalent low
level way of reading the keyboard state? I don't want to read the
keyboard as a stream but test to see if a key is pressed at any moment.
We have a distinct lack of documentation here so almost everything I
know about the Sun is gleaned from (a minimal set of) man pages and
deciphering include files. I guess I use ioctl() on /dev/kbd but I
can't seem to get it to work.

Maybe I shouldn't be doing this sort of thing...

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