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From: rich@sdchemf (Richard Kanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Color games and joysticks
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Date: 28 Dec 90 17:55:08 GMT
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In article <18480@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>
> Having recently acquired a color Mac, I'm interested in color games!
>
> I like arcade-type shoot-'em-ups, driving games, and hand/eye games like
> Tetris. What are some of your favorites?
>
> In addition, what support is there for sticks-of-joy on the Mac? Most Amiga
> games use them, and joysticks do seem superior to the mouse. Are they
> transparent, in that the signals are seen by the game as mouse moves? For
> example, would one work with Solarian? Assuming it would work, does anyone
> have a joystick to recommend?
>
I recently purchased Sky Shad, a good fast action shoot-'em-up game
which will run in color and with multiple monitors under multifinder.
Mac abuser (User) gave it 5 mice.  I would tend to agree. 

On a joy stick I have a kraft KM30 adb joystick.  I was rather dissapointed
with the performance of the thing.  With the mouse and joystick both hooked
up to the adb bus I had very jerky motions with the mouse, and menu
selections were rather difficult.  I also found using the joystick as a mouse
was also too dificult for genereal moving around the screen as the behavior
of the thing was too erratic to control.  I have used the stick with some
games and found again control difficult with the exception of falcon.  
But then again I am not very good a flying that jet.  In general I would
not recomend shelling out the $50 bucks for the thing, thank god I didn't.

					R. Kanner
					UCSD Chem