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From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Joysticks & Turrican (was Re: Turrican -- Where to get it???)
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Date: 17 Nov 90 19:09:19 GMT
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In article <8998@mirsa.inria.fr>, Michel Buffa writes:

> In article <424@tlvx.UUCP>, sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) writes:
>
> > I do seem to have a couple of problems with it (these may be my own problems,
> > not the game's).  Sometimes I have trouble jumping; I'm not sure why, but it
> > has something to do with my desire to run then jump by rotating the
> joystick.
> I never had any problems for jumping. Just move the joystick up or up-left, or
> up-right without keeping the fire button pressed. You can fire your weapons,
> but if you keep the button pressed, you activate the rotating laser, and when
> the rotating laser is on, you can't move if you don't release the fire button.
> The control of your character in this game is one of the best I ever seen. You
> can even control your jumps while you are in the air (like in Mario Bros)
>

I have found that you need a joystick that does "diagonals" well. I normally
use an EPYX JX-500 (or some such number). It holds in your hand, and uses
microswitches instead of the "ball & metal plate" bit used by the
el-cheapo joysticks.

However, diagonals are next to impossible with the EPYX joystick! I could
not get anywhere in turrican with it. When I switched to a cheap SUNCOM
joystick, it made all the difference in the world!

It may be just my technique (or lack of it :-), but I just can't seem to get
the hang of diagonals with the "better" EPYX joystick. Your milage
may very! :-)


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