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from: John B. Matthews
date: 2009-02-24 18:11:54
subject: Re: New Content on `What is the Apple IIGS?`

In article 
,
 Conrad  wrote:

[...]
> ?1 - Southwest
> ?2 - South
> ?3 - Southeast
> ?4 - West
> ?5 - Inventory
> ?6 - East
> ?7 - Northwest
> ?8 - North
> ?9 - Northeast
> 
> This is just my opinion, but I think having the compass points
> matching the number pad is more efficient then the way it is in your
> mockup. This way people won't have to memorize which number goes to
> which direction.  Just a suggestion.

Sorry, I don't know the context, but this is also the scheme used in 
RobotChase, seen here in Apple II UCSD Pascal and Java:

http://robotchase.sourceforge.net/>

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