In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.970926140727.622A-100000@ecom1>, you wrote:
>Speaking of building a custom something-or-other, I will ask this question
>because I know very, very little about programming stella. Is it possible
>to program a game which checks for joystick combinations that are not
>naturally possible, like pushing left and right at the same time? If so,
>a custom keyboard/control panel thing could be made with one button or key
>representing:
>
>up, up/left, up/right, up/down, up/button, up/left/rt, up/left/down,
>up/left/button, up/rt/down, up/rt/button, up/down/button, etc... How do
>you calculate the number of combinations? It's 5!, right? If so, in
>theory, a 120 button control panel device could be made for the 2600.
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Yes, you could make an alternate controller like this. But it would have some
problems. For example, how could you tell when a player wished to go right
and exicute the special function if left/right button was pressed and
the joystick was moved left? You'd have to be careful how you employ the
special buttons in the game.
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>There must be a reason why Atari didn't do this. Please enlighten me.
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Nobody made those type of joysticks I guess.
Incidently. If you want a quick retreat in Chopper Command, press left and
right at the same time.
CRACKERS
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