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Title: how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: Wade on May 30, 2003, 04:41:39 pm

Will someone explain this to me?  I can't get the guys to throw.  What am I missing??

Thanks,
Wade

Title: Re:how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: SirPoonga on May 30, 2003, 06:22:30 pm

I think it's just a push on the trackball.

Title: Re:how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 31, 2003, 05:36:52 am

Yeah you have two hook buttons (like bowling)  and a trackball.  It's pretty much unplayable with digital controls.

Title: Re:how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: Wade on June 02, 2003, 10:02:45 am

Thanks guys.  I was trying to roll forward with a mouse but couldnt' get anything to register.  I tried it this weekend on my cab with the trackball and sure enough, the forward roll throws it (into the house across the street!!)  I guess it was a difference in sensitivity or something.

Wade

Title: Re:how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: rampy on June 02, 2003, 03:51:13 pm

Quote from: Wade on June 02, 2003, 10:02:45 am

Thanks guys.  I was trying to roll forward with a mouse but couldnt' get anything to register.  I tried it this weekend on my cab with the trackball and sure enough, the forward roll throws it (into the house across the street!!)  I guess it was a difference in sensitivity or something.

Wade

How's the infamous re-built trackball of doom working for you, wade?

hope it goes well.  Getting sensitvity right in games is still a bit of a lost art to me, but sometimes I'm not sure if I should blame my ps/2 hack on that or if it's ??? but i digress.

Rampy

Title: Re:how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: jerryjanis on June 02, 2003, 10:43:18 pm

All I know is that we tried playing American Horseshoes after several late nights of Shuuz and quickly decided that American Horseshoes was a load of crap...  Shuuz rules (Atari's horseshoe game).

Title: Re:how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: paigeoliver on June 03, 2003, 01:51:57 am

American Horseshoes has a really narrow area of input. I never really got it set right, but after a bunch of practice I was able to kind of play it.

Title: Re:how to play american horseshoes?
Post by: Wade on June 03, 2003, 09:19:02 am

rampy and others,

    I adjusted the sensitivity down to where a hard whirl will make it hit the max power and a soft whirl will make it hit low power.  It's pretty playable now.  I'm not sure what setting I used but for most games it seems like 10-20% is about right.  I got backspin if I set the sensitivity too high on just about any game.  I set it higher on games like Centipede and Missile Command where you only move around a fixed screen and don't do any whirls.  I have only set the sensitivity in each game once or twice and it seems to work pretty well.  Haven't changed any of them for days. :)

    Yeah rampy the trackball from hell ordeal is finally over. :)  My latest hack actually worked.  Now I need to make sure those extra optic boards still work (after my desoldering and resoldering the optics).

Wade