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To me "analog" vs. "digital" was analogous to "continuous" vs. "discrete". I would never have called an NES controller "analog".
by nnutter 10y ago
To me "analog" vs. "digital" was analogous to "continuous" vs. "discrete". I would never have called an NES controller "analog".
- greggman 10y agoAgreed, especially because analog controllers have been common in video games since forever. Apple 2's joysticks were pretty much all analog. Was Pong analog? (I'm pretty sure the Atari 2600 paddle controllers were not analog, they're more like mouse wheel). The Atari 7800 had analog joysticks.
- csixty4 10y agoThe 2600 had paddles & "driving controllers". The former were potentiometers, the latter used quadrature encoding like a mouse. All the Pong (and clone) controllers I've come across were analog. But the Fairchild Channel F's controllers were digital.
- lowgman 10y agoI've got a bit of an industrial control logic background and that's my go-to framework as well :)
- l0b0 10y agoAnalog (as in continuous) was the holy grail back then. I was blown away the first time I got to try a real analog stick for a flight sim.