I haven't played AO for so long... all I remember from the Scrab and Paramite "runs" from the game is that there is little room for error and I had to run through it quite a few times (lost count) before I was successful.
I also use the Gravis Gamepad Pro, which essentially is a Playstation1 gamepad for the PC, which helps a lot (assuming you are running the PC version
). You can get the USB version at places like
EBgames.com for twenty bucks, I've also seen the older version that hooked up to the gameport on sound cards, but those are harder to comeby nowadays.