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Happy New Year everyone!
Looks like it's been quiet for a long time. Hi everyone, I'm a retro game lover. Last winter I tried to write a Mario-like game in Turbo C++ 3.0, but failed. I don't know how to listen to keyboard key events and control the player's movement. Thanks for some references to games written in Pascal. I'm not very familiar with Pascal, hope I can understand these codes 
Hello! It's not very active on my forum indeed. Lots of other retro forums that are way more active 
. However, I do update my hardware collection and benchmarks every once in a while.
Nice to see you dived into programming MS-DOS. I don't have much experience with C++ but did my (novice) share on Pascal. Regarding Mario you can actually find decent source code online for Turbo Pascal. You can find it on www.wieringsoftware.nl/mario. Perhaps you can learn real-time keyboard events from that source code.
The code in Bloxinies doesn't feature the nice real-time keyboard scanning. I do read for keyboard inputs but this does delay the movement of the character once after pressing the key. For a Bloxinies style game this is not really a problem but platform games should use realtime keyboard scanning.
I hope you can work out something using the source code of Wiering Software. If you can show progress of your game I'm more than happy to look at it!
Happy new year too!
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