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Article #37105Trak-Ball/Parsec Pixel Plus
From: Clifford Stein
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1989 03:34
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1989 03:34
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I just bought an Atari "Trak-Ball Controller" for my ST in hopes it would
function as a mouse. It didn't. When I select Trak-Ball mode, everytime
I move the ball either left or right, the mouse pointer moves left. When
I move the ball either up or down, the mouse pointer moves down. The
proportional speed does seem to work with the mouse pointer, though. I
have not tried it in the joystick mode yet, but I would assume it does
function like a joystick. Does anyone have any ideas on making it work?
I read last summer in _The Games Machine_, a British magazine, an
article about a special graphics board which plugs into the cartridge
port and gives your ST phenomenal graphics. It was called the Parsec
Pixel Plus, and was being designed by Elmtech, I think. It had a
resolution of 1024x1024 and would display 256 colors per raster line,
and had a palette of 16 million colors. I think it also ran at a speed
of 6.25 MIPS, and would work on all ST's. Has anyone else heard about
this? Does anyone know what is happening with its development?
Thanks for any help.
-- Cliff Stein
(cstein@jarthur.claremont.edu cstein@jarthur.UUCP cstein@hmcvax.BITNET)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!jarthur!cstein From: cstein@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Trak-Ball/Parsec Pixel Plus Message-ID: <462@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 12 Mar 89 03:34:44 GMT Reply-To: cstein@jarthur.UUCP (Clifford Stein) Distribution: usa Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 22