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Article #20Re: Good, cheap joystick works well with DESCENT
From: edw... Jonathan Edwards
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 02:56
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 02:56
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> In article <3e95mo$h...@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>, > vt...@uoguelph.ca (Vincent Tan) wrote: > > You use a mouse while playing games like Doom? A mouse provides better fine control. Joysticks all have a "dead" area around the rest position. So to do fine-tuning you need to rock back and forth across this dead zone. Mice have no dead zone. You can smoothly adjust at the quantum resolution of the mouse (the unit for which I believe is the mickey). -- Jonathan Edwards edw...@intranet.com IntraNet, Inc 617-527-7020 One Gateway Center FAX: 617-527-6779
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.descent Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!ub4b!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!world!edwards From: edw...@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards) Subject: Re: Good, cheap joystick works well with DESCENT Message-ID: <D1yquI.HnI@world.std.com> Organization: IntraNet, Inc. References: <ffjjd-3112941402020001@137.229.10.155> <3e50v7$c7h@hermes.unt.edu> <$R12liPNNmy9075yn@netcom.com> <3ei1o3$c6a@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> Distribution: inet Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 02:56:42 GMT Lines: 15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit