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you use Track Ball with left or right hand?
Timoe:
Do you use the Track Ball with your left or right hand?
I would think if you're right handed you would want it on the right side of your CP for use with your right hand. Like your mouse.
But I look on the SlikStik site and all their CPs have the track ball on the left with the trackball buttons on the right.
What is the norm for a right handed person?
NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: timoe on May 01, 2005, 11:28:53 am ---Do you use the Track Ball with your left or right hand?
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Yes.
Quite often I will even use BOTH at the same time.
I'm left-handed though, so I can't answer any of your other questions.
Dire Radiant:
I'd much rather use a trackball with my right hand a la Missile Command
quarterstringer:
I learned to use the trackball with my right hand because of Centipede and Missile Command.
Kremmit:
Depends on where the buttons are. :P
Seriously, back in the day, when you walked up to the machine, you just used it the way it was mounted and never thought about it. Today, I find I don't care, probably because I had to be ambidexterous back then.
On the other hand (he he), back then, I used to prefer a right-handed joystick, until all the games standardized to left-handed joys. At first I hated it, but eventually had to get used to it, and now that seems normal.
So I guess what I'm saying is, if you don't know which way you prefer it, you probably will get used to it however you mount it with no problem. So, just mount it the way it looks prettiest, and learn to play it that way.