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From: MMI@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Info about the Joystick and the Game port
Message-ID: <89180.040645MMI@PSUVM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 08:06:45 GMT
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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I just purchased a joystick.  It's a CH MACH I+.
I ran a BASIC program to print STICK(0) and STICK(1) and the
joystick functions as expected. The X and Y run between 5 and 220.

I tried to run some games afterwards and it simply wouldn't function
properly.  I tried to center it with limited success.

I have an IBM AT compatible system with a 80386 running at 25 Mhz.
I had previously tried another joystick with the same results.
I sent it back thinking that the joystick was defective.

How can the joystick function properly in BASIC and not in games?

Is there something I should know about joysticks and game adapters on
the AT?

I hope somebody can shed some light on the situation.

*** Michel Maksoud.