PCE games with mouse support

TurboXray · 12/10/2015, 12:52 PM

The other thread about analog controllers got me thinking: What pce games do think would benefit from optional mouse support?

I think Operation Wolf would be one of them.
Playing Forgotten Worlds would be interesting: mouse for movement and gamepad (direction part?) for the pod movement. I mean, imagine the main character being controlled like a mouse pointer (and all the acceleration that goes along with it). It'd probably make the game too easy.

NecroPhile · 12/10/2015, 12:55 PM

Mine Sweeper, Loom, Beyond Shadowgate, and Sim Earth all should have mouse support.

roflmao · 12/10/2015, 01:45 PM

While it's completely playable without it, the Nectaris (Military Madness) games would pay well with mouse support. Probably also the other turn-based strategy games, though I haven't really played them.

jtucci31 · 12/10/2015, 01:58 PM

Misread the title

dshadoff · 12/10/2015, 08:53 PM

The Manhole.... but nobody would actually play it.

Seriously, are you talking about retrofitting it into a non-mouse-supporting game ?

I know I reverse-engineered the protocol, and stuck some code into HuC's libraries way back when... but I hadn't heard of anybody using it. Retrofitting an existing game could be interesting.

Maybe all the Shogi games ? Stratego ? Shanghai ?

-Dave

TurboXray · 12/10/2015, 09:41 PM

Was it in HuC? I ripped it from one of the games that supported it, and used it for a couple of non public apps. But yeah, hacking support into non-mouse games.

Pokun · 12/12/2015, 06:47 AM

Populous maybe? I heard it plays almost better with a pad though.

Edit: BTW Bonknuts you don't mind sharing the mouse code you ripped out?

NecroPhile · 12/14/2015, 05:36 PM

Quote from: dshadoff on 12/10/2015, 08:53 PMThe Manhole.... but nobody would actually play it.

I would.

johnnykonami · 12/14/2015, 06:05 PM

I was always interested in the Manhole since I saw in an old mag years ago (VG&CE maybe?) but for the Amiga or some other computer. My favorite Disney movie growing up was Alice in Wonderland so the theme suits me, and I love point and click adventure games. I might get the package they have on Steam one day with some of their other games, but I would probably pick up the PCE version one day if I ran into it. I don't why but lately I've been thinking about these kind of games lately, maybe because one Christmas I got a game for my C64 called Tass Times in Tonetown. That was probably my first adventure game (graphical) along with Hitchhiker's Guide for the C64 which I didn't get very far in until years later.

deubeul · 12/14/2015, 06:17 PM

Quote from: dshadoff on 12/10/2015, 08:53 PMThe Manhole.... but nobody would actually play it.

I'd love to play it again with a mouse, that would be a lot easier and less boring to navigate and see everything.

TurboXray · 12/14/2015, 07:00 PM

Quote from: Pokun on 12/12/2015, 06:47 AMPopulous maybe? I heard it plays almost better with a pad though.

Edit: BTW Bonknuts you don't mind sharing the mouse code you ripped out?

Sorry, didn't see this. I'll upload it to my site (download and links section)

Edit: Uploaded.

Pokun · 12/15/2015, 06:42 PM

Thanks a lot!

esteban · 12/18/2015, 11:14 PM

Baby Jo.

Ha!

Gomola Speed, seriously.