Trojan Light Pen

[Darrin]

That takes me back.  I used to have a lightpen for my C64.  Simons BASIC had commands for checking for the pen's position and I remember rewriting a database program of mine to use sprite icons for the pen to select.

[Darrin]

Lightpens only work with CRT monitors.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

And even if they worked with LCDs, I wouldn't fancy scraping a lightpen around my display.  I get upset when someone prods it with a finger.  

[Darrin]

Oh, do you still have that program?  Yours might be the first and only C64 database to use a lightpen.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

Unfortunately not.  All the C64 software I had written (back in the 80s while I was in school) was stolen in the early 90s.  I went off on an Op Tour while I was in the Army and by the time I got back someone had nicked my floppy disks from storage.  :-(

I'd already switched to the Amiga back then so I had no real interest in sitting down and rewriting anything (I think I was messing around with GFA BASIC about then).

To be honest, it was more "proof of concept" and I rapidly came to the opinion that having to pick up a pen, select icons, put down the pen, type stuff, pick up the pen... etc, etc was a pain in the backside.  Choosing options using the F Keys was so much easier even it it wasn't as "cool".