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From: spenser@sugar.hackercorp.com (Spenser Aden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Epyx 500 XJ joystick
Message-ID: <7086@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 17:26:58 GMT
References: <5712@crash.cts.com|
Reply-To: spenser@sugar.hackercorp.com (Spenser Aden)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <5712@crash.cts.com| 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

I've had no problem whatsoever with my 500 XJ at all.  In fact, I really like 
the styling of it.  Quite easy to manipulate.

-Spenser


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