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Re: Amiga 500 games playable with the keyboard
« on: August 07, 2009, 07:40:14 AM »
Quote from: gaula92;517014
hello people!

I've just got my Altera DE1 to work as an Amiga 500 (with the Minimig core), but as you may (or may not) know, this board doesn't have a joystick or double-ps2 connectors, so I am stuck with the keyboard alone. No mouse, no joystick.
These can be added with some fixes, but I want to try some games now.

So, what games can be booted and played with keyboard only on the Amiga 500? Rpgs and platform games are preferred, if you know of some... Amiga has directional keys, so there must be some. No text adventures like Zork, please :(

Thanks! :D


Most all of SSI's simulation and D&D games should work with just keyboard control.  If your keyboard has a Number Pad with a NumLoc key the movement will work well from there as diagonal movement is accomplished with the 1,3,7 & 9 numbers, which you cannot do from the cursor keys without wasting additional movement allotment to move up, or down, then over, to get to the same square.

Since they are turn based, not real time, not having a joystick is not a disadvantage to those games.
How are you helping the Amiga community? :)