>Turns out that you can get three directions out of each joystick at any
>one time with Stella, but only if you press the keys on the keyboard in
>the right order. With the "player one joystick", if you move up-down (in
>any order) first, you can then add left but right will not register. Or
>you can move right-left first (again both at the same time, whichever
>first) and then add down. You cannot add up before or after down while
>holding down left & right.
That's an artifact of the PC keyboard, not of Stella. It's common
knowledge among PC programmers. Because of the switch-matrix nature of the
PC keyboard (it's hard to describe, but suffice it to say that the
electronics inside the keyboard only have about a 25-pin connection to the
key contacts), the PC won't always respond to all combinations of keys.
The number of keys and which ones respond varies by keyboard.
>Any reason it does this and is there any truth to this pattern with a
>real 2600?
Yes. No.
>Have fun, and I'm garnering more and more respect for Bob, Piero, Greg et
>al with every attempt to code this bugger!
Oh, sure, I'm just "et al"? :)
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