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From: "James Rutherford" <home@jamesrutherford.com>
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Subject: Re: Nintendo DS
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:39:44 +0100
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I can't pretend to have been following too closely- but my understanding is
that you can use your fingers.
Marble Madness, please, Mr. Atari!


"Nick Slaven" <NickS@ioproductions.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ca9a66$6ip4@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm quite interested by the whole touch pad thing, does it respond to
> fingers or is it just the stylus.
> If you can use your fingers then you don't have your whole hand tied up
with
> holding the stylus, and it opens up a whole new area of control methods,
as
> Scott says - you can have as many "buttons" as you like (though that may
be
> a bad thing) or emulate trackball a interface, or even some gesture
> interface(think B&W) - if its purely stylus input then I think it would
get
> in the way.
>
> cheers
>
> Nick