4 May
2010
4 May
'10
3:01 p.m.
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?I'm not sure it's fair to call a new
controller technology a "gimmick". ?If
it is, then so are wireless controllers, and anything other than a digital
Atari-style up-down-left-right joystick.
Those were gimmicks, too, in their day - we used to spend quite a bit
of effort to adapt Atari joysticks to PET User Ports (one is easy, two
joysticks takes a bit of effort because there are five switches and
eight primary bits - mostly folks used diodes, but I think there was
at least one hack that used CA1 or some other handshaking line).
-ethan