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From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: trAkbAll
Message-ID: <30960@bbn.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 14:15:20 GMT
References: <6437@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
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Reply-To: slackey@BBN.COM (Stan Lackey)
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In article <6437@xanth.cs.odu.edu> you write:
>  I have asked this same question MANY places.... only to get ABSOLUTELY
> NO response.... at all.  I am interested in finding out OTHER programs
> that use the standard Atari trAkbAll (or, now, the ST mouse).  My current

MC is the only one I know of.  The trakball almost works as a joystick
substitute when in joystick mode - it does quite well on the 2600 as well.
It's just that the software that reads it has to read it very frequently
so forget BASIC.  Unless you use a joystick driver (should I post
mine again?)
-Stan