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The other thread about analog controllers got me thinking: What pce games do think would benefit from optional mouse support?

 I think Operation Wolf would be one of them.
 Playing Forgotten Worlds would be interesting: mouse for movement and gamepad (direction part?) for the pod movement. I mean, imagine the main character being controlled like a mouse pointer (and all the acceleration that goes along with it). It'd probably make the game too easy.

Mine Sweeper, Loom, Beyond Shadowgate, and Sim Earth all should have mouse support.

While it's completely playable without it, the Nectaris (Military Madness) games would pay well with mouse support. Probably also the other turn-based strategy games, though I haven't really played them.

Misread the title  :lol:

The Manhole.... but nobody would actually play it.

Seriously, are you talking about retrofitting it into a non-mouse-supporting game ?

I know I reverse-engineered the protocol, and stuck some code into HuC's libraries way back when... but I hadn't heard of anybody using it.  Retrofitting an existing game could be interesting.

Maybe all the Shogi games ?  Stratego ?  Shanghai ?

-Dave

Was it in HuC? I ripped it from one of the games that supported it, and used it for a couple of non public apps. But yeah, hacking support into non-mouse games.

Populous maybe? I heard it plays almost better with a pad though.

Edit: BTW Bonknuts you don't mind sharing the mouse code you ripped out?

Quote from: dshadoff on 12/10/2015, 08:53 PMThe Manhole.... but nobody would actually play it.

I would.  :mrgreen:

I was always interested in the Manhole since I saw in an old mag years ago (VG&CE maybe?) but for the Amiga or some other computer.  My favorite Disney movie growing up was Alice in Wonderland so the theme suits me, and I love point and click adventure games.  I might get the package they have on Steam one day with some of their other games, but I would probably pick up the PCE version one day if I ran into it.  I don't why but lately I've been thinking about these kind of games lately, maybe because one Christmas I got a game for my C64 called Tass Times in Tonetown.  That was probably my first adventure game (graphical) along with Hitchhiker's Guide for the C64 which I didn't get very far in until years later.

Quote from: dshadoff on 12/10/2015, 08:53 PMThe Manhole.... but nobody would actually play it.

I'd love to play it again with a mouse, that would be a lot easier and less boring to navigate and see everything.

Quote from: Pokun on 12/12/2015, 06:47 AMPopulous maybe? I heard it plays almost better with a pad though.

Edit: BTW Bonknuts you don't mind sharing the mouse code you ripped out?

Sorry, didn't see this. I'll upload it to my site (download and links section)

 Edit: Uploaded (https://pcedev.wordpress.com/downloads-and-links/).

Thanks a lot!

Baby Jo.

Ha!

Gomola Speed, seriously.