10-02-2025, 07:43 PM
Maybe it was some key combo that I tried that you didn't?
I was doing much like I would on the forums; just having fun with it. I tried to type "I WIN!" as the user name and that's when it crashed and shut down.
Perhaps something with the SHIFT key? Or the SPACE? (I tried to hold Shift and do the I(space)WIN, and it was somewhere between the I and (space) where it shut down. I'll dig into the code myself when I get some time. The closer we get to Halloween the less free time I have thanks to selling Pumpkins and Halloween related events here on the farm, so don't expect an instant answer if I find one.
We tend to do corn mazes and haunted houses (barns) and apple bobbing and make apple butter and sell/carve pumpkins and do hayrides and lots of other junk to draw people. It's a rather busy time which then begins to wrap around into Christmas Tree Time for us. From October till January, my free time isn't as free as it used to be. 
As for the machine I tested this on, it's a brand new Area 51, 18 inch laptop from Alienware. Top of the line specs for just about everything and close to a $5,000 price tag. If things are on some sort of timing loop (again, I haven't really studied the code yet sufficient to know), then that might be a possible source. I tested Desius's game for him and the encounters there were normal on his PC and yet seemed to be occurring about every tenth of a second on mine. LOL!
Do me a favor and test the joystick code I linked to above one more time on your machine. Sam (a470g) mentioned that it worked for him, and he's normally our Mac dev/user. I was thinking _DEVICES worked with the joystick (last I heard), but not with the keyboard. It might be that one of our latest versions patched whatever issue was stopping it from working properly for you. I'm really not positive on that either, as I'm not a Mac guy and don't test/keep up with everything with regards to that OS like I try to do with Windows. I'm curious if we got it fixed, or if it's something still broken, and if it's broken, might it be something we can get fixed soon(tm).
I was doing much like I would on the forums; just having fun with it. I tried to type "I WIN!" as the user name and that's when it crashed and shut down.
Perhaps something with the SHIFT key? Or the SPACE? (I tried to hold Shift and do the I(space)WIN, and it was somewhere between the I and (space) where it shut down. I'll dig into the code myself when I get some time. The closer we get to Halloween the less free time I have thanks to selling Pumpkins and Halloween related events here on the farm, so don't expect an instant answer if I find one.
We tend to do corn mazes and haunted houses (barns) and apple bobbing and make apple butter and sell/carve pumpkins and do hayrides and lots of other junk to draw people. It's a rather busy time which then begins to wrap around into Christmas Tree Time for us. From October till January, my free time isn't as free as it used to be. As for the machine I tested this on, it's a brand new Area 51, 18 inch laptop from Alienware. Top of the line specs for just about everything and close to a $5,000 price tag. If things are on some sort of timing loop (again, I haven't really studied the code yet sufficient to know), then that might be a possible source. I tested Desius's game for him and the encounters there were normal on his PC and yet seemed to be occurring about every tenth of a second on mine. LOL!
Do me a favor and test the joystick code I linked to above one more time on your machine. Sam (a470g) mentioned that it worked for him, and he's normally our Mac dev/user. I was thinking _DEVICES worked with the joystick (last I heard), but not with the keyboard. It might be that one of our latest versions patched whatever issue was stopping it from working properly for you. I'm really not positive on that either, as I'm not a Mac guy and don't test/keep up with everything with regards to that OS like I try to do with Windows. I'm curious if we got it fixed, or if it's something still broken, and if it's broken, might it be something we can get fixed soon(tm).