> Certainly, to get to the higher levels of KABOOM!, it is more than
> necessary to have the short paddle throw. What I love about that game
> (and it's certainly in my top 5) is the way you don't even think about
> moving the paddle when things get hectic; you just see and reflexively
> "will" the buckets into position. I really am going to have to rig up
> that serial port to paddle controller job for DOS Stella...
Erhm, serial port? Wouldn't it be about ten times as easy to wire the
paddle through into a game port, and just hook up the paddle as if it were
a joystick X-axis and joystick button? That would even allow use of the
paddle (assuming it's a hardware-only hack) in native PC games like
Arkanoid.
Unless the pinouts work so that you can plug the paddles into the 9-pin
serial port without any hardware convertors at all, which would make it
definitely worthwhile...
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