Cant fire diagonally up and left while moving?

[WizardBone]

Is it just me or can you NOT fire a ball or missile diagonally up and Left or Down and Right? as you are moving it seems.
I noticed it wouldnt work as I was trying it in my own project.
Thinking it was just my coding I tried out other example programs that were not mine and you cannot do it there either. Or I cannot anyway.
Is there a reason for that? or is it just my computer : / I cant find anything. Weird. I never noticed it before...

 

Edit: Using my own code, or using an example that isnt mine with stella. I can fire left, right, up, down, upRight, DownLeft but NOT upLeft or DownRight.
That said, it will fire in those two directions if there is no movement of a sprite. hm

Edited November 17, 2016 by WizardBone

[RevEng]

Likely cause: Keyboards are evil

 

Most keyboards have trouble with certain key combinations, due to the way they poll/decode the key presses.

[WizardBone]

Yeah this is true lolll ok cool just checking, I thought it would be weird for it not to work. Totally my comp then. grr i'm positive it worked the other day. I blame windows updating. More evil than keyboards.

[+Random Terrain]

If you use the Ctrl key to fire instead of the space bar, you won't have that problem.

[WizardBone]

You are correct! thats interesting. Thanks!