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Bonknuts

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PCE games with mouse support
« on: December 10, 2015, 04:52:48 AM »
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.
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Necromancer

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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2015, 04:55:43 AM »
Mine Sweeper, Loom, Beyond Shadowgate, and Sim Earth all should have mouse support.
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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2015, 05:45:02 AM »
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.

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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2015, 05:58:45 AM »
Misread the title  :lol:

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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2015, 12:53:21 PM »
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 ?

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Bonknuts

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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2015, 01:41:58 PM »
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.

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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2015, 10:47:45 PM »
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?
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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2015, 09:36:36 AM »
The Manhole.... but nobody would actually play it.

I would.  :mrgreen:
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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2015, 10:05:08 AM »
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.

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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2015, 10:17:38 AM »
The 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.

Bonknuts

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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2015, 11:00:51 AM »
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?

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

 Edit: Uploaded.
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Re: PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2015, 10:42:39 AM »
Thanks a lot!

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PCE games with mouse support
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2015, 03:14:30 PM »
Baby Jo.

Ha!

Gomola Speed, seriously.

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