At 10/29/01 Glenn Saunders wrote:
>BTW, as Bob Colbert demonstrated, you can read a trackball in
>trackball mode on the 2600. I'd be interested to know,
>however, how fast you can glide the ball before the 1/60th of
>a second reads are insufficient. I would assume that even the
>Atari trackballs were higher resolution than the driving
>controllers, but maybe they are the same. I'll have to dig up
>my CX-80 trackball and test this code on one axis to see. It
>would be interesting to see Missile Command get modified for
>trackball mode ;)
While rereading some old [stella] stuff I found this. I had
completely forgotten that when I made my Missile Command Trak-
Ball hack, but it shows some foresight of Glenn. ;-)
BTW: One read per frame isn't enough by far. MCTB does more
than 40 reads per frame.
Have fun!
Thomas
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