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Using the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer simulator

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If you don’t have access to a Windows Phone 7, it is difficult to figure out how to make a game that uses the accelerometer, and often we just use the finger flip, which isn’t nearly as cool.

So if you need a simulator, get thee over to:

https://wp7accelerometerkit.codeplex.com/documentation

To make it work, be sure to read the “READ ME ALL” document, seriously, all of it.  Toward the end of it, there are instructions on how to see the simulator working.  The code is well documented, unlike other samples. 

In Mango, the accelerometer simulation will be embedded in the emulator, so that will be helpful.

When the demo is working you should see:

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The demo only gives you a feeling for what the accelerometer simulator will do.