Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!apple!bbn!bbn.com!slackey From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: trakball games Keywords: wanted Message-ID: <39419@bbn.COM> Date: 3 May 89 16:05:35 GMT References: Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: slackey@BBN.COM (Stan Lackey) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 19 In article wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) writes: >I know Missile Command has hidden, built-in trakball support >(gotta press control-T to go into trakball mode). Does anyone know >of any other games that offer support for the trakball??? I don't know of any, and don't think there are any either (this question has been asked here before). Some games work well with the trakball in joystick mode anyway; like millipede and actually MC ain't bad. Even tried it on the 2600 MC. Trakball is pretty useless in some games, though, like pacman. I use the commodore mouse now for a lot of this stuff, which works pretty good in joystick mode, after my trakball started sticking. (I was using the tb as a mouse in some of my programs, but I need two buttons anyway). (I gave up trying to get the mouse to run in proportional mode, too; it is read through the pot inputs, and for some reason works on a commodore but not on an atari.) -Stan