I need a good way to handle input for a 2 player hotseat game. Each player needs seven keys each, and when i use sdl that doesn't work to good. Or more like dosen't work at all. I'm wondering if there is any better way to do the input. Right now i don't care too much if it's windows specific.

Unfortunately, you're wrong - there's no better input handling method that would allow you to use so many keys.

Some time ago I was planning to make game for 4 players on one computer - but after some tests, I gave up, and scaled down my needs just for 2 players. But recently after doing one bigger techdemo, I've seen that even then it doesn't work good all the time. And it's not windows or SDL specific - it's just hardware limitation :-/

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