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> what's wrong with also supporting the arrow keys? I mean, all PCs had those, right? No, the arrow keys were introduced with the Model M keyboard in 1985. Bef
by Narishma 3y ago
> what's wrong with also supporting the arrow keys? I mean, all PCs had those, right?
No, the arrow keys were introduced with the Model M keyboard in 1985. Before that only the numpad arrows were available and they were a bit awkward to use for gaming.
This game was released in 1984, so it makes sense that they weren't supported.
- cess11 3y agoThe C64 had arrow keys but as far as I remember they were never used as such. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/9199/why-did-the-c64-have-%E2%86%90-and-%E2%86%91-as-dedicated-keys https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/9199/why-... has a few more examples of this kind of old-school variety of arrow keys.
- dusted 3y agoIt did indeed, they were sufficient (barely) for moving the cursor, but there were only two, iirc, default was right and down, and to go left and up, you had to press them while holding shift