Tyrian 2000 joystick upgrade#

The ship stops shooting about a second after the 'J' key was released, even though the fire key is still being pressed.Ģ. The ship ingame shoots projectiles as long as the fire key (Space bar) is being pressed. Press and release any other key, for example 'J'. Press and hold the fire key (Space bar).ħ. Back out two menus and go 'Start Level'.Ħ. Enter 'Options -> Keyboard' and verify the key for 'Fire' - by default it is Spacebar.ĥ. Run the game (Start New Game -> 1 Player Arcade -> Episode 1 -> Normal)Ĥ. If DOSBox is not fullscreen, press Alt+Enter to switch it to fullscreen.ģ. Here are a few test cases, using the freeware game 'Tyrian 2000', available at members. The issue described in Post #4 seems to also occur in DOSbox (package 0.74-2-1) - when running fullscreen and pressing two or more keys simultaneously, one of them stops being registered a while later. Again, everything works as expected in Ubuntu 18.04. When there is no user input/activity for about 1 second, the flickering mouse pointer returns. ***If you _don't_ jump while moving forward, the forward movement continues as expected and the rogue mouse pointer stays away. The forward movement stops and the rogue mouse pointer returns to flickering, as if there is no user activity, or as if the user input activity has been cleared/reset. Further bug info: I noticed that if you're moving forward with the 'w' key(with no mouse activity), and jump(press 'spacebar') while keeping the 'w' key pressed, the bug returns about a second later. It appears that the xinput devices(keyboard/mouse) are being hijacked by desktop? As long as there is user input(keyboard/mouse activity) at least once second within Sauerbraten, everything works as expected in Ubuntu 18.10. Sorting straces of Sauerbraten seem show a similar number of epoll calls as flickers of the rogue mouse pointer, but that was a hack at trouble-shooting and may be unrelated. It appears that the xinput devices( keyboard/ mouse) are being hijacked by desktop? As long as there is user input(keyboard/ mouse activity) at least once second within Sauerbraten, everything works as expected in Ubuntu 18.10. xserver- xorg-video- nouveau: xserver- xorg-video- nouveau 1:1.0.15-3 xserver- xorg-video- intel: xserver- xorg-video- intel 2:2.99. xserver- xorg-video- ati: xserver- xorg-video- ati 1:18.1.0-1 xserver- xorg-input- evdev: xserver- xorg-input- evdev N/A xserver- xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.1-3ubuntu2 asset.tag: ATN123456789012 34567ĭmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.ĭmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican MegatrendsInc.

Tyrian 2000 joystick upgrade#

UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)ĭmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.ĭmi.board. ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE= (loop)/ casper/ vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/ filename= /Downloads/ username- 18.10-desktop- amd64.iso ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 quiet splash LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' - Release amd64 (20181017.3) 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 ) ProcVersionSign ature: Ubuntu 4.18.0- 10.11-generic 4.18.12īootLog: Error: Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log' Here you should notice the glitch in rotation and the _system_ mouse pointer flickering in and out near the crosshair at a rate of about once a second. Move forward with the 'w' key(steer with the mouse) to some rotating cubes. Start a game(I like sauerbraten->bot match->start match-> ctf->europium)ĥ. Set sauerbraten to fullscreen mode(sauerbrate n->options.->display- >fullscreen)Ĥ. It works fine in fullscreen mode in Ubuntu 18.04.ģ. When not in fullscreen, the animation is smooth(no visible skips/glitches) and I don't see the system mouse pointer 'popping up' every second. Upon further 'evaluation', I noticed the system mouse pointer 'popping up' briefly at the moment of the glitch(near the crosshair) about once a second. When I run sauerbraten in fullscreen mode in Ubuntu 18.10, there are 'skips' in the animation of the rotating cubes.