DelphiHeretic and DelphiHexen keyboard problems

jval · jval on Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:42 am

Due to keyboard problems while attempting to use WASD keyboard combination for moving in DelphiHeretic and DelphiHexen a new patch is available http://delphidoom.sitesled.com/downloads/Heteric_Hexen_Patch.zip

This is not and official release, future releases will not require this patch.
The package contains the executable files of newest DelphiHeretic and DelphiHexen:
DelphiHeretic version 0.1.7.70
DelphiHexen version 0.1.3.59

This patch replaces the "skel" cheat (Heretic) and the "skel" and "satan" cheats (Hexen) with "idskel" and "idsatan".

Technical Work-Around:
The 'S' key unfortunatelly does not work properly because of the SKEL (Heretic) and SATAN (both Hexen and Heretic) cheats. Therefore the WASD combination does not work preperly, the S key must be pressed twice because the first keystroke is "eaten" by the "Cheat Responder" (asuming you 're going to type a cheat). If you press "S" twice the "Cheat Responder" buffer gets and "ss" compination whitch does not much any cheats, so it feeds the "Game Responder" which the "S" keystroke.