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From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Two Button Joysticks
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.160243.224@javelin.es.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:02:43 GMT
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Moriland@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes:

>	Someone mentioned a while back about the desire/need for two
>button joystick support on the Amiga. I agree. As of late I've been 
>working on a small routine that will read all three buttons from a Sega
>Genesis Joypad/stick. Once completed, I plan to mail a copy of that routine
>along with a letter explaining why I am sending it and why I am letting 
>them have the source code to all the game companies I can think with the
>request that they USE IT to make games which will use the second and third
>buttons on Genesis style controller.

This is a GREAT idea.  You might also want to make the routines able to read
secondary input.  That is, the spacebar does the same thing as button B, the
alt key does the same thing as button C.  Or if you want to go the Hybris
route, spinning the joystick while holding down the spacebar and singing the
Dutch national anthem does the same thing as button C.

>Maybe I'm crazy, but maybe it will work...

Let me know if you need another crazyman to help.  I'm curious to how you are
reading Genesis Button C.  I tried to find the pins it was connected to once,
but I was unable to (I didn't go as far as ripping the stick apart).

>						-Moriland

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