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- From: chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk (Chris Appleton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Rodent Trouble
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 18:04:10 GMT
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- Hey, Mads Haahr, you mumbled somthing about Re: Amiga Rodent Trouble on 05-
- Feb-96 12:53:28?
- MH> dalec@zorro.amitrix.com (Dale Currie) writes:
-
- >>In article <4eo1r0$dl0@odin.diku.dk> maze@diku.dk (Mads Haahr) writes:
- >>
- >>> Amiga uses digital joysticks (with microswitches or copper plates)
- >>> whereas PCs use analogue joysticks (with meters). In short, you can't use
- >>> a PC joystick in an Amiga port.
- >>
- >>Wrong, an analogue joystick will work _very_ well on an Amiga port, it's
- >>just that most games (except for some flight sims) don't build in support
- >>for them. Pity, cause they are far superior, and all it takes is a little
- >>better design and a few extra code modules which would be reuseable.
-
- MH> It won't work unless you hack it, which was what I meant. The
- MH> analogue joysticks I have seen have 15 pin connectors whereas Amiga
- MH> joysticks have 9. The original poster didn't sound like he was
- MH> prepared to do an awful lot of hardware hacking.
-
- I've got a PC joystick on my Amiga, I got a 9-15 converter. All it is is a 15
- pin wide (i.e. not HD) connector hard wired to a 9-pin one. No chips, no bits,
- nothing. Unfortunatley I paid 9GBP for it, which was about 8GBP more than it
- was worth...:(
-
- Chris
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