[Coco] Wico Trackball?

[Joel Ewy]

Rogelio Perea wrote:
> Depends a lot on the program itself as the trackball behaves just like with
> the regular joysticks for the CoCo (the free floating ones, black plastic
> body).
>
> Some programs (Paint apps mostly) work very well with the trackball, some -
> mostly games - don't. The later is because usually games involve definite
> direction movement detection: up, down, left & right, not much "in-betweens"
> (Pac Man and other maze games come to mind). With programs that expect
> pretty much only 4 or even 8 discrete directions, the trackball (and the
> free floating joysticks) will be cumbersome to use.
>
>   
But if it works well, I bet it would be great for Polaris.  I still like
that game.  It might also be fun to try it with a paint program like
CoCoMax (3).

JCE
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>
>
> On 9/6/07, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> Saw this on e-bay :
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130149273635&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching#ebayphotohosting
>>
>> Does this work in place of a mouse for programs that have mouse support or
>> does it act as a joystick replacement or better yet will it do both? I have
>> never seen one of these for the coco beore. I had the Atari 800 version long
>> ago.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Derek
>>     
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