On Saturday, 6 October 2012 at 14:50:08 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > IIRC it is very easy to do this on Windows as there's no need > to change the console mode. Windows already has getch() in one of its system libraries or C runtime, and I'm fairly sure it has kbhit() somewhere too. The easiest thing to do would just be to link with those.