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From: dalessio@motcid.UUCP (Mario D'Alessio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 4 Player Option
Summary: Connecting four joysticks to the ST
Keywords: four player option
Message-ID: <5483@feldspar23.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 91 16:34:34 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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Some games, such as Gauntlet II, allow four player
to play at once. Here are the pin assignments for
the cable. You need two female 9-pin plugs and
one 25-pin plug (don't remember if it's male or
female).


Joystick 3      Parallel Port
-----------------------------
    1                6
    2                7
    3                8
    4                9
    6               11
    8               25

Joystick 4      Parallel Port
-----------------------------
    1                2
    2                3
    3                4
    4                5
    6                1
    8               24


Parallel port pins 18-25 are all connected to ground.

I haven't tried building this myself, so I don't know if
it will work. Good luck!


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