   Realy geting start!!!
    Hey ther people!  I''m realy new in this thing of game programing and I have a very basic question:  Is ther a non-preemptive function for geting comands by the keybord in C/C++? like arrows or ESC.    Thanks for any help! 
  you can try kbhit(), which tells you if a key press is waiting to be read.  I think its in conio; its been forever since I wrote anything in DOS with Turbo C++.;  Just to clarify, kbhit doesn''t read anything -- it just tells you if somethign was pressed.  You have to use getch() to eat the keystroke. ;   Thanks dood! This was a great help!!! I saw in Visual S.''s help and it just need a if (kbhit==true), this way the program don''t stop until ther is an key on the buffer! 