[iPAQ] button problem

In winCE, the crosspad center button (press between the dir buttons) can
be chorded with another button. Try pressing center + calendar to align
the touchscreen (the one thing winCE does better than palmOS). when I hold
a (non-center) button, hold another (non-c) button, and then release the
first, it is still repeated the first until the second button is released.
Does the hardware just latch onto the first button detected and keep that
value until the everythinginputline drops to zero?

Other thoughts:
These silly flashable devices really need a ROM BIOS that can bootstrap
them back from brick-dom. Revival should be as simple as "If the foo
button is held at bootup, then any information dumped in on the serial
port is burned into flash ( or ram, and exec'd)". Since we don't have
that, could some of those little pins in the jacket connector reach into
flash/ram to bootstrap life into it? A botched install could simply mean
going back to Circuit City, and putting your ipaq in the life-jacket.

I would LOVE to see Abuse ported to this, I see 2 possible (minor) UI
compromises. Use center to activate upgrade (usually speed boost), and
have invisible inertia to do running jumps (roll the control so it seems
like a double click, but with two different buttons). Or, just use center
for jump, and press up to toggle the upgrade.
Put your stylus on something, your guy shoots. If an opaque stylus (or
finger) is a problem, the game could scale aiming to the lower right
corner of the screen (so that when you touch the center of the screen,
your guy shoots upper-left).
Abuse should be Ipaq-linux's first killer app.
Received on Tue Aug 22 22:51:40 2000