Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Marc Lambert" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Nintendo DS Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:12:20 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: user-6484.l1.c1.dsl.pol.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Are there many of YOU then? ;-) Marc. "Nick Ferguson" wrote in message news:car61j$bin1@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > Yeah, you can use your fingers. If you don't mind GRUBBY FINGERPRINTS ALL > OVER THE SCREEN. Not one for anal-retentive screen obsessives, I suspect. > > "James Rutherford" wrote in message > news:caap24$8gf2@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > > 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" 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 > > > > > >