Re: Apple IIgs Futureshock 3D Future Pad

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Tempest wrote:
> Very true, I've never trusted ads in magazines as proof of a games
> existance (Sword of Sodan is a good example).  Is the game a prototype
> then?  I assume no box has been found.
>
> Shame we can't hack joystick control into the game, but without knowing
> how the game was to be controlled that would be tough.  Someone would
> have to go through the code I suppose.

If it was a joystick port device, then that wouldn't be very hard,
since the hardware addresses are unique, and the pad reading is
almost certainly centralized in one routine.

> Mitchell Spector wrote:
>
> > "Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Has anyone ever found or seen a picture of the Future Pad the was
> > > supposed to be used with Futureshock 3D?
> > >
> > > http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/game_pages/futureshock.html
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there was a way to recreate the pad or hack
> > > something that would work like the pad.  The game itself looks rather
> > > interesting, and it would be nice if it were playable.
> >
> >    I personally doubt it ever existed (at least in a form that was
> > publicly available, there may have been a prototype made).
> > The fact that there was an ad in the back of inCider/A+
> > certainly makes you wonder, but then there was also a
> > full page ad for Sword of Sodan (not to mention it being
> > listed "in stock" for order from a few vendors).
> >
> > Mitchell Spector

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