Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucrmath!lord_zar From: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Joysticks & Turrican Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 90 07:12:59 GMT References: <204@coplex.UUCP> <424@tlvx.UUCP> <8998@mirsa.inria.fr> <1838f77f.ARN24fb@starsoft.UUCP> <1990Nov18.045643.22811@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 61 hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes: >I played the game with both a Wico Ergostick and a Genesis Joypad. The nice >thing about using a Genesis Joypad with Turrican is a second fire button is >supported (normally the "flash" activated by the space bar). It takes a >little getting used to, but I really like it now. If you want to use a >joypad on your amiga, it's the one to get. Screw, d00d! EPYX 500XJ joysticks are THE only way to go! Under the plastic outside is a STEEL, not PLASTIC, rod!!! The most recent vesion has the second button, and even happens to be compatible with Sega, as well as Commodore, Amiga, And Atari. EPYX, however, has had some financial problems, and is more likely to concentrate on the new/recent Lynx hand-held color system. Go to Toys `R` Us or Kay-Bee's or something similar and find it! make sure you open it in-store first, though! When I got my first one, I got it for the better control and durability as compared to the shitty Atari joysticks I usually got. Then I found EPYX was going bye-bye and decided to get another before they were gone! Lo and behold, It had a second button AND autofire!!!!! Autofire is AWESOME!!! Do you know how easy Turrican is with autofire ? Imagine spread-shot or the top-power straight laser on autofire!!!! It's just as good as the electric beam in most cases. (the e-beam can go any direction unlike the laser) Some warnings with autofire: the second button is useless, thus you can't turn into the gyroscope (the spinning wheel or "Mr. Invulnerable" as we call it), or do the energy walls, electric-beam, etc. It means you have this choice: Take awesome firepower under autofire, and stay close to the keyboard, Or: Be prepared to move the joystick switch (convieniently located between you and the stick, if you were looking at it from the angle of holding it in your hand) when you want to use the e-beam, etc. I did the second option and that's how I finished the game. I suppose I ought to play a full game without autofire, though. Everything is just so much fodder with it, there isn't too much of a challenge except for worlds 4 and 5. So: get an Epyx 500XJ (with autofire) if you can find it! The apple II(GS)/IBM version might even still be out there. I doubt it though, because they just aren't the game computers, and software/hardware stores always had more of the Commodore/Atari types. Anyways, Pax, Wayne. >--hal >-- >hgm@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu "..now that Mac way of doing things has taken hold, >netoprhm@ncsuvm.bitnet will we ever be able to get rid of it?" > Alan McKay "User Interface, A personal view" >