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From: rcnelson@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ryan Christian Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Interfacing Atari joysticks to macs
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Date: 19 Dec 90 05:28:59 GMT
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Hi, netfolk...

Just wondering if anyone has ever seen instructions telling how to make a
Macintosh look at an Atari-type joystick.

I've noticed that most mac programs assume we don't have a joystick, and
that we hate the mouse for gaming.  (point, yes....shoot aliens, no way.)
Thus, they use the keyboard.  But never more then a few keys.  I'd like
to do any or all of the following:

o  Use my atari-type joystick thru any of the mac ports to emulate a mouse
   This also includes the atari-trakball I got for ten bucks.

o  realising that's asking a lot,  I'd like to use my mac to look at the
   joystick, findout which of the nine buttons are being pushed and then
   using software, convert this to a keypress.  Anyone know how to write
   a cdev for this kind of thing?

o  Finally, before I got the mac, I hardware hacked the hell out of my
   trusty Atari 800.  I REALLY miss the ability to look at a resistor
   (disguised as a 'paddle') as easily as it was on that machine.  
   How can I hook up paddles to my mac?  I want a $3000 etch-a-sketch!  :)

If anyone tells me anything interesting, I'll post it to the net.
   Better yet.....post it yourself!  I'm not greedy.  I can read off the wall.



Thanks for any help you've got.

Ryan Nelson
rcnelson@icaen.uiowa.edu    Iowa computer aided engineering network