Patch:Press any key
The 'Press any key' function in Keen Vorticons is used by the save game windows (and in Keen 3 the BwB messages.) to display a small graphic and wait for the player to press a key. Calling this function will make the graphic appear and animate and the game to pause until any key is pressed.
There is also a second, slightly different, function is used by the C T Space and Patch:G O D Cheats. The two are independent.
Graphic
This is the little twirling blue circle displayed at the very end of the message. it waits for Keen to press a key. By default the graphic is an 8x8 tile, with four frames of animation. The two functions differ in how they produce this however. The cheats function starts with a tile, then animates until it reaches the tile before another tile. By default these values are $09 and $0D, so the animation is $09, $0A, $0B and $0C. The animation speed can also be altered.
The savegame function however simply has a start tile and a number of animation frames.
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No graphic
Setting the tile to $20 with 1 frame of animation will make the graphic indistinguishable froma normal window background, in effect removing the graphic.
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