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I have been dreaming about a split keyboard with dual trackballs and two cursors for the past few months. This may be the kick i need to actually get on it.
by AuthAuth 2mo ago
I have been dreaming about a split keyboard with dual trackballs and two cursors for the past few months. This may be the kick i need to actually get on it.
- mtlsnk 2mo agoDon't let your dreams be dreams; there is the Svalboard Datahand [0]. Though, you may need to sell a kidney to purchase it. In fairness to the creator, it's a niche product that would have taken quite some time to develop. I quite like BenVallack's video about the Svalboard [1] (and his videos in general about his journey through the world of split keyboards). [0] https://svalboard.com/ https://svalboard.com/ [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Lz_FNoYHNM https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Lz_FNoYHNM
- fuzzfactor 2mo agoThey didn't call them mouse cursors with Ataris and Commodores because almost nobody had heard of a mouse, but there was more than one joystick port so multi-player was built-in from the beginning. I hadn't heard of a mouse either but when the trackball appeared, mainly to play Centipedes and Missile Command, I used it as a single-button mouse anyway, not only to point & click but to drag & drop which I had never seen demonstrated. So I made a little 2-player game, not fancy, each player stayed in their own window. Of course nobody had ever heard of "Windows" either since MS-DOS wasn't even out yet.