Some Commodore 8-bit computers used two keys instead of four, with directions selected using the shift key. The inverted-T layout was popularized by the Digital Equipment Corporation LK201 keyboard from 1982. It can be used instead of WASD keys, to play games using those keys. The use of arrow keys in games has come back into fashion from the late 1980s and early 1990s when joysticks were a must, and were usually used in preference to arrow keys with some games not supporting any keys. A feature echoed in the Amiga whereby holding the Amiga key would allow a person to move the pointer with the arrow keys in the Workbench (operating system), but most games require a mouse or joystick. Mouse keys is a feature that allows controlling a mouse cursor with arrow keys instead. The original Apple Macs had no arrow keysīefore the computer mouse was widespread, arrow keys were the primary way of moving a cursor on screen.
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