Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!rex!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU!ds4a From: ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mouse ("I hates mieces to pieces") Keywords: joysticks? Message-ID: <1991Mar19.162602.19618@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 19 Mar 91 16:26:02 GMT References: <1991Mar18.193231.11330@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 36 Ireallyam: ds4a In article <1991Mar18.193231.11330@wam.umd.edu> nebel@wam.umd.edu (Chris D. Nebel) writes: >The problem, however, is that virtually no games support joysticks. The reason >for this is that almost nobody has a joystick for their Mac. So game writers >say to themselves, "Why should I bother writing in joystick control, which >would make ten people happy, when I could write better mouse control instead, >which would make millions of people happy?" (All right, I'm exaggerating the >numbers. :) It's a matter of cost-benefit analysis. > Well, I hate to disagree, but... I own a Mach IV+ Joystick made by CH Products. I like it and Falcon is just about UNPLAYABLE without a joystick. If a program supports mouse control, then it supports joystick control as well, since both give the mac exactly the same type of input. I can move the mouse pointer with either the joy or the muse without touching a thing. In fact, I can move them it opposite directions at thsame time at watch them fight over the cursor :-). I use whichever (mouse or joy) seems to work the best for each program. If it is advantageous to get continuous movment it one direction --> Joystick. If absolute screen placement is desired --> mouse (or joysick with the dipswitches set for absolute screen position, rater than "relative moement". Yes, I would agree that there are few games (Falcon is the only one I have seen, but I don't own/play many games) with joysitck support built in. But, if they use the mouse for control, then a joystick will work as well. Just my 2 cents worth -- your opinions may differ. --> --> Dale UVa (ds4a@virginia.edu)