[Coco] CoCo 1/2 arrow keys versus CoCo 3 arrow keys

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 14, 2023, at 12:13 PM, Jeff Teunissen via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't think "WASD" was a thing at all until the _late_ 90s, when it
> was popularized in Quake tournament play by a guy called Thresh. I can
> find no reference to it earlier than that. And even then, it only
> happened because of a thing called "mouse look", where you would be
> able to turn your character with the mouse in your right hand.

Now this is an interesting observation. I do not recall what VIC-20 games used (they had two cursor movement buttons instead of four), but WASD was something I became aware of much later. I expect we’d have to look at other systems that did not have arrow keys.

I know Jim Gerrie’s MC-10 things use WASD so now I wonder if any of the 80s programs he has ported used that layout.

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