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From:	machek AT atrey DOT karlin DOT mff DOT cuni DOT cz (Pavel Machek)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Blocking Keys in Win95
Date:	14 Jun 1996 16:29:13 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: 
: On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
: 
: > > I have a keyboard interrupt in my game.  Under DOS, you cannot reboot the 
: > > system or anything.  The controler take total control of the keyboard 
: > > like it is supposed to.  But with win95, If I hit the START button, or 
: > > Cntr-Alt-Del, windows takes over.  How can one stop this?
: > 
: > Basically you can't. What you are getting under win95 is not a direct 
: > hardware interrupt: it is a virtualised interrupt which the OS has 
: > already looked at and decided to pass on to your app. Some keys it keeps 
: > for itself, and so your program never sees the interrupt.

Well. You can. But you would have to write some windows-specific code in
386 assembly, which would become part of windows and pass these interrupts
to you. Not worth writing, in my opinion.

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