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Re: Can someone program abuse like contra?/ to use gravis and no mouse?

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From: dja... Douglas Jacobs
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:00
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NetSurfer (k...@kkr.seanet.com) wrote:

: can someone make abuse like contra for nintendo so that you dont have
: use the aimer? like you just use the gravis pad and run around then
: shoot... and like in contra if you point up you shoot up if you point
: down you shoot down....?/ the moving the mouse around to hit your
: target becomes VERY annoying.. can someone do this please? and then
: send it to me?

This would require quite a bit of hacking and rewriting the source code
I'm afraid...I wouldn't bet on anyone short of CRACK.COM doing it...

(besides, I like the mouse aimming...allows you so much more freedom
than Contra's icky 8-directions ;)
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From: dja...@umich.edu (Douglas Jacobs)
Subject: Re: Can someone program abuse like contra?/ to use gravis and no mouse?
Date: 1995/09/14
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