Comment by shagie
2 years ago
Crossfire for the Apple][ series ( https://youtu.be/Vi1Yo13TO28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(1981_video_game) ) had IJKL for movement and ESDF for shooting.
I do want to say that for some reason, I remember IJKM and ESDX for controls though. That was a rather uncomfortable control layout (which is why I remember it).
I remember a lot of Apple ][ games using keyboard letters for controls. It bothered me, because having a ][gs I had actual arrow keys.
As for Doom and then Quake, I used the arrow keys and then Del+End for strafing. In Doom you actually went sqrt(2) faster by running diagonally with strafing, and could even outrun rockets (or run ahead of them to where they were going to hit, in big open levels).