Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!adm!husc6!yale!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucrmath!lord_zar From: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Epyx 500 XJ joystick Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 08:17:53 GMT References: <5712@crash.cts.com> Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 40 steves@pnet01.cts.com (Stephen Scheck) writes: >david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) writes: >>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! :-) >No, it's not your technique. I couldn't get diagonals to work on the 500 XJ >either, so I too switched to cheap Suncom joysticks. >> Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,lobster}!starsoft!david >Stephen Scheck >UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!steves >ARPA: crash!pnet01!steves@nosc.mil >INET: steves@pnet01.cts.com (Screw, dude!)^2 I have two EPYX 500XJ's, one with second button and autofire, and one without. They both give me VERY good diagonals!!! How could I have finished Turrican without diagonals ? I'm the leaping maniac! You know all those platforms, one right on top of the other ? I *excel* at those, beating the socks off everyone else I know who's played Turrican! I can't speak for Suncom, never having used them, but EPYX 500XJ's do it ALL!!! What's your problem, d00ds ? Anyways, Pax, Wayne