Stella and paddles

[+atari2600land]

Why is it that when i set paddle 1 decrease to left and paddle 1 increase to right, that whenever i press left, the player moves right and when i press right, the player moves left? Is it something i'm doing wrong programming, or am i just going crazy?

[+stephena]

Why is it that when i set paddle 1 decrease to left and paddle 1 increase to right, that whenever i press left, the player moves right and when i press right, the player moves left? Is it something i'm doing wrong programming, or am i just going crazy?

Paddle resistance increases from right to left. So less resistance should mean move right, and more resistance mean move left. I'd need to check this out with a real set of paddles (and Stelladaptor) to be sure, but I'm reasonably certain that's how it should be. And that seems to be exactly what's happening; for example, pressing 'right' is increasing the resistance, which moves the item left!

 

EDIT: I forgot to add, that assuming everything I said is correct, then there's nothing wrong with your code either; you've just remapped the increase/decrease events backwards.

Edited January 9, 2009 by stephena