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In article <C1Iow4.Fz4@math.uwaterloo.ca> mwtilden@math.uwaterloo.ca (Mark W. Tilden) writes:
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>I've always wanted to get the old arcade game TEMPEST for my ST.  It 
>was an old vector-monitor game popular in the 80s where you went 
>through a variety of shapes blowing away baddies that came up at you.  
>Very stylish.  You can still see them around some of the arcades.  Don't 
>know if the atari can handle the speed or not but it's be great to 
>see.  Could be handled entirely by the mouse.  Something I'd definitely 
>pay shareware costs for, maybe others would too.

I have a TEMPEST arcade game at home and it's my opinion that it would
not port well to any home computer.  The main reason is the controller.
TEMPEST uses a free spinning rotary knob, and I can't see how one could
emulate that action with a mouse, joystick or trackball.  On some of the
screens it could work (the ones where your movement is essentially
left-right), but the circular and figure-8 screens wouldn't translate at
all.  

Of course, if someone wanted to market a rotary controller with the game
it would be another story...
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