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- From: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: atari joystick -> ibm gameport?
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:06:38 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <THEN.93Jan4184256@lk-hp-15.hut.fi> <1993Jan3.181902.2440@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <693@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca>
- Reply-To: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
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- In a previous article, then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi H Engdahl) says:
-
- >In article <693@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> dnwangus@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Dave Angus) writes:
- >
- >>I'm not much good at drawing schematics in ASCII, but here's the
- >>schematic (more or less) from the Computer Shopper article.
- >>The article was written by George Toft. Any errors or mistakes
- >>are mine.
- >
- >Because the circuit uses relays and connects to the computer, there
- >is a danger that the high voltage spikes generated by relay coil
- >can cause harm to the computer circuits. When the current in the
- >relay coul is switched off, a high voltage spike is generated in
- >the coil. It would be a good idea to add a reverse-biased diode
- >in parallel with the relay coil to avoid those spikes. The diode
- >can be any common type, for example 1N4148 or something like that.
- >Some special relays have internal diodes for that purpose.
-
- Here is an even easier circuit design. Who needs a relay?
- just use a normally closed switch instead of a normally
- open one for the right movement control. This actually might
- work perfectly on one of those EPYX joysticks. If I remember
- correctly, the switches inside were the type that had three
- terminals, NO, NC, and a common. Even if the ones inside
- didn't you could replace them (hey, this is getting
- expensive!). Say, how much is a Gravis Gamepad?! ;-)
-
-
- O-------o-----------
- | |
- | |
- | \
- | /
- | \
- Normally Open o | /
- SPST switch |--- |
- (LEFT) o | o-------
- | | | Normally Closed
- | \ |o SPST switch
- | / |---- (RIGHT)
- | \ |o
- | / |
- | | |
- O-------o-----------o-------
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