Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
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.
Continue reading here:
http://www.boray.se/commodore/contact/
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Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
Thanks so much for this! Even if, I guess it won't improve my gameplay so much...
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Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
Just ran the program in VICE and tested the following joysticks through Retro Designs' 9-pin to USB adaptor:
Mindscape Powerplayer
Zipstick
Atari CX-40
Commodore 1311
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.
Mindscape Powerplayer
Zipstick
Atari CX-40
Commodore 1311
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.
Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
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.
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.
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Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
Cool!
I'll give it a try on my recently repaired "Competition Pro" next time I power up the Vic.
I'll give it a try on my recently repaired "Competition Pro" next time I power up the Vic.
Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
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.
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Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
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 .
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 .
Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
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.
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Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
A C64 version is on the way. Brought a C128 out of the closet.
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Re: Contact - Joystick testing and benchmarking program
A C64 version is up. On the same page:
http://www.boray.se/commodore/contact/
http://www.boray.se/commodore/contact/
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