[Coco] CoCo Joystick

J Arcane jarcane at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 02:49:21 EDT 2014


Doubleback was amazing. Easily my favorite CoCo game, so much so I wrote a
column once just to teach people how to install and run it on modern PCs
with VCC.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

> IMHO, the Robot Odyssey's Coco implementation
> was the epitome of joystick use.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey
> It wasn't only fun, but a great learning tool for
> electronics and digital logic. I explored all levels,
> and spent days and weeks with it.
>
> Kandur
>
> Friday, October 3, 2014, 7:34:17 AM, you wrote:
> >   I think one of the finest iterations of the joystick handling was the
> > game "Popcorn".
>
> > On 10/3/2014 8:47 AM, tim lindner wrote:
> >> Questions:
>
> >> Was the CoCo the first to have an analog joystick?
>
> >> What games best show off the CoCo joystick's features?
>
> >> First in my list is Doubleback.
>
>
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