Joystick testing and benchmarking system for Commodore Vic-20.
This program measures the contact ability of your joystick and gives it a benchmark score so that you easily can pick out your BEST joystick and hopefully improve on your game playing results.
All joysticks scored 100 which suggests to me that the program needs a bit more refinement before it will be of much use. I was surprised that the program didn't test diagonals or any kind of rapid movement.
Having said that, I like the idea and think it has a lot of potential.
VICE will always give you 100. You need a real Vic for this.
I thought of diagonals but there isn't really diagonals in a joystick. It will give you minus if your joystick is floppy enough to hit a diagonal hit by mistake though.
PRG Starter - a VICE helper / Vic Software (Boray Gammon, SD2IEC music player, Vic Disk Menu, Tribbles, Mega Omega, How Many 8K etc.)
I actually planned to include all diagonals, but then, in the middle of it, I realized I had to redisign the whole machine language part from scratch to include them, and then I skipped it. (I used Hesmon on a real Vic). Maybe I will reconsider this in a new version some day, because in a Tac-2, a different part of the metal is in touch during diagonals. A problem could be though that the new ML wouldn't be fast enough to catch all contact bounces, I don't know.
PRG Starter - a VICE helper / Vic Software (Boray Gammon, SD2IEC music player, Vic Disk Menu, Tribbles, Mega Omega, How Many 8K etc.)
Is there any chance of this being ported to the C64? Especially since there is a lot more uncertainty over the right joysticks to use in comparison to the VIC. It would also be great if support for VICE could be introduced as 9-pin to USB adaptors are becoming more common and people are becoming increasingly aware that a contemporary d-pad only gives you about 1/10 of the flexibility you need for home computer games.
I'll definitely give this program a try when I next set up the VIC, but at the moment there is no way that my Japanese Mega Drive + Everdrive combo is coming off the coffee table .
Porting it to c64 and adding diagonals would actually be easier than adding diagonals on the vic-20 version. Because on the c64, all joystick moves are in one register byte. On the vic-20, it's in two.
PRG Starter - a VICE helper / Vic Software (Boray Gammon, SD2IEC music player, Vic Disk Menu, Tribbles, Mega Omega, How Many 8K etc.)
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