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- From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
- Subject: Joysticks, Apple vs. IBM (was Re: Woz //gs's)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.144809.290@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Keywords: Apple //gs FOREVER!
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
- References: <BsszF1.200@cmptrc.lonestar.org> <1992Aug12.080924.2753@micor.ocunix.on.ca> <BtBvBL.7rp@cmptrc.lonestar.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:48:09 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- >>Hmmm...don't they have wider connectors on the IBM (DB connectors...they
- >>certainly don't have 16-pin ones)? I recall seeing a joystick that could be
- >>used on a ][ or on one of those other nameless beasts...there were two
- >>quite different plugs on the cable, one for the ][, one for the BM.
- >>
- >
- >IBM joysticks connect to a "game port" on the PC which happens to have a
- >9-pin DB connector (actually a "DE" connector as I recall the standard).
- >This matches the external joystick port on the ][e, ][gs, and (I think)
-
- I do not think this is correct, especially sΘnce I just spend the
- afternoon ye≤terday fighting with an I┬M joystick that had gone bad.
- The IBM uses a 15 or 16-pin connection (can'⌠ remσmber which) µor the
- game port.
- (The 9-pin is the serial connection for modems or mice or whatever).
-
- I have seen a few joystΘπks wΘth a wiσrd cable, with an IBM connector
- and then some more cable to an Apple II connection. ┼ven fewσr a≥e those
- that supply an IBM to Apple II converter wire (since I think the IBM
- act⌡ally ignores many of thσ pins on itºs connector).
-
- It would probably be possible to simply build such a "converter" cable,
- but you would need to know the pinouts for each machine.
- --
- ()()() Grover Thomas ()()()
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