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Unread 11-10-2003, 01:25
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Ugh. I don't know how I'd handle a new controller...our programmers just tweaked their pBasic skills to what I'd call "good" this year, and now they're gonna throw this at me. Wow. Maybe it'll be good -- maybe they'll keep pBasic and expand the flash and RAM and maybe give some more inputs and outputs and some better feedback on the OI. Little flashy lights are not sufficient, and the dashboard port makes for a bunch of glorified flashy lights on a computer (which I think is a hassle and gets in the way). At least have bigger, brighter flashy lights! My one complaint is that the current RC doesn't handle non-player input sufficiently without miracle code. And it's hard to have miracle code with just two guys coding, who both actually have lives and don't live breathe and die pBasic during the build and test time.

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Okay, reading further, I see that there will indeed be a bigger, better RC/OI combo. Yippee. Now I gotta ramp up my programmers for C.
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