C keyboard libraries

Hey all you *nix programmers, do any of you know if there's a way to make an ncurses game with more advanced keyboard interaction?  I'm looking for a way to detect if a given key is down during a given frame, rather than if a key is both pressed and released in a frame. Also, I'll need to be able to register more than one key at a time. Is there a way? And if there is, will it work without X11?

Why not look at the source of existing games like Nethack and copy their approach?

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All games like that which I've seen don't have support for holding down keys over multiple frames or pressing more than one key at the same time.

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Disable canonical mode.
See [/m]man termios[/m].

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