[Coco] Wico Trackball?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:17:53 -0600, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com>  
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.

Some games, that require positioning based on the joystick (rather than  
just straight movement) work quite well. Polaris and Colorpede are two off  
the top of my head that work quite well with it (I own one).

>
>
>
> -=[ 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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