[Coco] Wico Trackball?

[Rogelio Perea]

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.



-=[ 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