MrConfusion
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After using the Pandora for PC and Amiga games emulation for a while one thing has become obvious: The Pandora could do with a better mouse "emulator".
The touchscreen is more like a digitizer with it's absolute coordinates and though, in theory, such devices are OK for mouse emulation, in practice they aren't that great. Besides, reaching for the pen is a pain and using your thumb gets the screen all greasy.
The nubs are not exactly "great" or "wonderful" for mouse emulation, unless you are used to gaming on an IBM Thinkpad :rolleyes: .
With the P1 I think I'll try with a trackball and if that feels nice, I'll try to track down a small, "traveling" trackball.
But if a P2 came out, what could it have to alleviate this problem? I know of only three possible candidates, all of which are... well...:
Trackpad (yech... never liked them for gaming, ever...)
Trackball (constant maintenance, takes huge amounts of space :-()
Gyroscopes (never tried gyromice in my life, so don't know how well that would work)
Or am I simply the only one suffering from the problem, because most games I play are "mouse heavy"?
(And the ones that aren't tend to be "keyboard and digital stick is enough"... which the Pandora seems to do quite nicely, although you need to plan and remap keys etc.
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The touchscreen is more like a digitizer with it's absolute coordinates and though, in theory, such devices are OK for mouse emulation, in practice they aren't that great. Besides, reaching for the pen is a pain and using your thumb gets the screen all greasy.
The nubs are not exactly "great" or "wonderful" for mouse emulation, unless you are used to gaming on an IBM Thinkpad :rolleyes: .
With the P1 I think I'll try with a trackball and if that feels nice, I'll try to track down a small, "traveling" trackball.
But if a P2 came out, what could it have to alleviate this problem? I know of only three possible candidates, all of which are... well...:
Trackpad (yech... never liked them for gaming, ever...)
Trackball (constant maintenance, takes huge amounts of space :-()
Gyroscopes (never tried gyromice in my life, so don't know how well that would work)
Or am I simply the only one suffering from the problem, because most games I play are "mouse heavy"?
(And the ones that aren't tend to be "keyboard and digital stick is enough"... which the Pandora seems to do quite nicely, although you need to plan and remap keys etc.
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