Hi all,

One small thing I would add to the joystick debate is that there was an
overlooked item in AR:City for the Atari. You could not leave banks
without pressing the joystick in the down direction. Other than that you
could perform all movement with the keyboard instead. I'm unsure if things
were the same way on the C64 or AppleII. Certainly the Amiga and ST
versions did not require a joystick at all and all versioins of the Dungeon
so far as I know did not require joystick input.

Additionally most emulators will allow you to map joystick commands to your
PC keyboard, commonly the numberpad or the arrow keys can double as an
emulated joystick.

The above is a really long answer saying "no, you don't need a joystick to
emulate AR" ;)

Darryl Giors

Lance, of the City of Xebec's Demise

Tyr, wielder of the Eater of Evil, wrought by the Dwarven Smithy of the
Dungeon.

At 12:44 PM 9/13/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> --- "Ana_L._Valdes" <agora--algonet.se> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for a stupid question. I want very much play
>> AR, one of my old
>> favourite games. But I don't know how to use the
>> emulator :(
>> I installed the DOS version, furnished by same site,
>> but it crashed at once.
>> I have a PC Pentium IV with 512 mgh. Besides that I
>> don't own any
>> joystick. My questions: is it possible to play AR
>> without any joystick?
>> And which emulator I should install (Commodore 64 or
>> Amiga or Atari?)
>> and how to use it?
>> Thanks!
>> Ana
>
>Ana,
>
>You don't need a joystick to play the games. Use the
>I, J, K and L keys to move around on the Atari and C64
>versions. Use the cursor keys for the Amiga, ST and PC
>versions.
>
>Basically the Atari and C64 offer you versions of both
>The City and The Dungeon. For the Amiga, ST and PC
>you're limited to just The City. Most people seem to
>like the Atari 8-bit versions the best so I'd start
>with them but the C64, Amiga and ST versions are also
>good.
>
>The AR FAQ has a section on emulating the various
>versions of AR. You can get it from:
>
>http://www.eobet.com/alternate-reality/
>
>Most emulators allow you to do snapshots of the
>emulators current state which means that you don't
>need to mess around with character disks - makes
>emulating the games a lot easier.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Guilherme
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