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From: dhawk@well.UUCP (David Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Asking for trackball recommendations
Keywords: Trackball mouse
Message-ID: <12439@well.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 19:02:39 GMT
References: <8759@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: dhawk@well.UUCP (David Hawkins)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In the referenced article, saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) wrote:
>I'm curious about how a trackball feels as a pointing device.  Are there any
>trackballs commercially available in the US for the ST?  
>                                 Steve J.

I've been using a Wico trackball that had already been converted for
ST use.  I noticed one at my dealer's and have since noticed that
several dealers have them for sale and have them hooked up to
machines.

What do I think of it?  It took some getting used to.  I had been
using a mouse during my first month of Dungeon Master and had trouble
making the switch.  I recently went back to DM and played it just fine
with the trackball.  (I can take any one character and zip through the
whole dungeon and make the final objective in under 13 hours--how's
that?)

I like having the trackball take up less desk space since I keep
piling up stuff.  The two buttons are slightly less convienient, but
it's still ok for what I do.  

As for converting trackballs -- I don't know.

later, david
-- 
David Hawkins       {apple,pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!dhawk
dhawk@well.sf.ca.us    --   In this world it is not what we take up,
but what we give up, that makes us rich.  -- Henry Ward Beecher