[Coco] Recreating the CoCo keyboard

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I just picked up an atari 2600 joystick adapter for my model 1 and its made game play GREAT



https://youtu.be/yLGaTnb6688


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From: msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Sent: October 21, 2020 6:09 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Reply to: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Recreating the CoCo keyboard

On 21/10/2020 11:25 am, Allen Huffman wrote:

> When I first saw a photo of the CoCo 3 (Rainbow magazine, probably) I
> was excited that the arrow keys were finally “together.”
>
> Then I got one and tried to use it to play games like Sea Dragon.

I was far more competent on the TRS-80 Model 1 keyboard with the
separated arrow keys than I ever was on a PC keyboard with clustered
arrows. I think the Model I game "Penetrator" is impossible on a
clustered keyboard.

Regards,

--
Mark McDougall
<http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>

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