Re: Games which rotated monitor?

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

xorxif wrote:
> Rocket based one was Galaxy Wars. I don't think that was too popular an
> idea because people didn't like to rotate their monitors back then. I
> tried it once or twice back in the day, but it was too much of a hassle
> when every other game required you to put the monitor back normal.

Great - thanks for that.

As I suspected, it's another game by Starcraft, the same guys who did
Snoggle/Puck-Man - which had the same feature. (They also did
Galaxian/Alien Rain/Alien Typhoon, Star Blazer, and A.E.)

It mightn't have been popular with those who knew better, but I can
remember flipping the Monitor II on a friend's Apple at around age 12.
The urge to play was greater than our fear of the consequences. ;-)

> It might be kinda neat if Applewin could add this minor feature to
> rotate the window, just for laughs. I'm not sure, but would I be correct
> if I assumed that it would take just a few minutes to code this?

Possibly. I actually did this in a previous Apple II emulator for WinCE
because rotating the handheld was sometimes necessary to use the
controls. The way screen updates were vectored, it was pretty easy.
AppleWin's current video code is a mess though. The video rewrite could
support it - but it seems unlikely for just 2 games.

Starcraft's old Tokyo address is a couple of stations from where I
live. Sometime I'm going to go and see if the building is still there
after 25 years.

Cheers,
Nick.