{ STEVEN TALLENT You can disable the whole keyboard like this: Sample program by Kerry Sokalsky } Uses KScreen; Procedure KeyboardEnable; {unlocks keyboard} begin Port[$21] := Port[$21] and 253; end; Procedure KeyboardDisable; {locks keyboard} begin Port[$21] := Port[$21] or 2; end; Var X : Integer; begin ClrScr; KeyboardDisable; For X := 1 to 10000 do begin GotoXY(1,1); Write(X); If Keypressed then begin ClearBuffer; gotoxy(10,10); write('This should never occur! - ', X); end; end; ClearBuffer; { This is here because even though the keyboard is turned off, each key is still placed in the buffer } KeyboardEnable; For X := 1 to 15000 do begin GotoXY(1,1); Write(X); If Keypressed then begin ClearBuffer; gotoxy(10,10); write('This could occur! - ', X); end; end; end.