Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!ucsd!ucrmath!lord_zar From: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: JoySticks, Turrican II Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 15:06:50 GMT References: <53486@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 26 GORRIEDE@max.cc.uregina.ca (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes: >Just a few questions here: >1) What is a good joystick to buy? I am looking for something I can use > one-handed, and has good diagonals. The epyx 500 I am using has fast > microswitches, but it is terrible for trying to do diagonals. > The C&L GunShot I have has leaf switches, and does diagonals better, > but it is wearing out, and the dome fire-button switches are slow. > Auto-fire would also be nice. >| Dennis Gorrie gorriede@max.cc.uregina.ca gorrie@meena.cc.uregina.ca | Hey, My Epyx 500XJ works fine on diagonals. Maybe I'd better clear up why everyone seems to think the opposite. The diagonals are JUST slightly off what you are used to from the old atari joysticks that we all started with, etc. etc. Carefully move the stick around in a circle, clockwise, then counter-clockwise, and 'feel' where the stick stops on diagonals. I easily solved Turrican I with my 500XJ, and you KNOW if you can't do diagonals in that game you are screwed. Wayne