Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!peck From: peck@ral.rpi.edu (Joseph Peck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Old Koala Pad Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 16:32:01 GMT References: <37819@cup.portal.com> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: ral.rpi.edu In article <37819@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >peck@ral.rpi.edu (Joseph Peck) in writes: > ^^^^^^^ > (mailer garbage?) Yeah, it is garbage. Why is it there though? Oh well, I guess I'll leave that to the mail gods.... > > Does anyone have the pin-out specifications for a Koala Pad? > It is a pressure sensitive drawing pad made for the old > Atari computers. It was made by Koala Technologies Corp, and > ^^^^^ > ||||| >Also for the C-64 > >Since some of the C64 peripherals (e.g. joysticks) work just fine on the >Amiga, I would venture to guess you could just plug the Koala pad into the >Amiga's joystick port and see what happens. The Koala "may" simply emulate >a joystick. Well, I recieved some mail from Jeff Lavin, and he has a little assembly language hack to drive the pad. Although he didn't actually say, enough other people have so it seems that the pad is a resistive type. A little proportional input reading should work just fine. I would like to thank everyone for their help, I only have one of these. I would have hated to have fried it by guessing..... Joe peck@ral.rpi.edu