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From: 871579l@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Todd Lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Old Koala Pad
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.162949.19732@aucs.AcadiaU.ca>
Date: 10 Jan 91 16:29:49 GMT
References: <!KY^+F%@rpi.edu> <37819@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: 871579l@aucs.UUCP (Todd Lowe)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <37819@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>peck@ral.rpi.edu (Joseph Peck) in <!KY^+F%@rpi.edu> writes:
>
>	Does anyone have the pin-out specifications for a Koala Pad?
>
>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.
>
>
>Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]

The Koala Pad was based on variable resistance similar to an analog joystick.
It uses the paddle ports on the C=64, and can be read with the Amiga, but I
have not seen any software designed to use paddles (that's what the pad would
replace) on the Amiga.

-Todd

PS: Our PNews has been acting up could someone let me know if they see this 
    other than at Acadia.