Re: Starcraft on a Laptop Tablet

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From: Isaac
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:29

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On Jul 8, 6:47 am, Kocureq <a....@w.stopce.pl> wrote:
> Isaac pisze:
>
> > I was buying it for graphic art reasons, but im wondering if starcraft
> > on a touch screen might be better than a mouse. Ur thoughts?
>
> I tried playing Red Alert on Tablet PC using pen as a pointer and it
> wasn't that good. If you don't have external keyboard then scrolling the
> map is really annoying, right-clicking the pen isn't as fast as when
> using mouse, generally it's slower than using mouse. Nice to play with,
> but not for serious play.
>
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did you try just using your fingers or just the pen. I'm not familiar
with command an conquer, but it would seem that it could be faster if
you kept one hand near the min map and used your fingers to click/box
units and click commands.

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