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From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Creative Computing lightpen (was Re: Atari trivia)
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Date: 5 Jun 91 02:29:38 GMT
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For what it's worth, I picked up some third-party commercial light-pen at
a local user-group flea market a couple of months ago, got it to work, and
had the SAME experience of totally useless horizontal resolution: "picking
a pixel +/- 40 pixels away from where you were pointing" sounds about right...

Must be the Atari hardware. :-(