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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: 3 button joysticks question
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Date: 19 Jan 91 18:45:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan18.235315.18373@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
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In article <1991Jan18.235315.18373@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> kgs@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Kok G Sang) writes:
:This is probably a dumb question, but I just bought a genesis joystick and 
:after playing with some games, I noticed that some use the space bar as a 2nd 
:button. Is it possible to disk edit these bytes so the games will read the 
:extra buttons on the genesis joystick instead? Has anyone done this and if so,
:what bytes should be changed and to what? 
:

I think it would take a bit more coding than that to get it to work.
There IS some good news in this area though, I have learned recently
that some games are supporting at least two button joysticks.

Two I know of for certain are R-Type (a pretty good conversion of the
arcade original) and Turrican (brand new release). There are probably
a few others. In my conversations with Dave Haynie at Commodore he
said that two button support is already in the OS on an intuition
level and support for a third button is also there, but a little lower
down in the OS. There is no reason for developers NOT to make 2 or
even 3 button games. What we need to do is organize a letter writing
campaign and then mention in our reivews which games support extra
buttons.

				--Moriland


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