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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Help with joystick (a clarification)
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.181202.25180@unixg.ubc.ca>
Date: 22 Jan 91 18:12:02 GMT
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In article <36056@netnews.upenn.edu> tyler@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Tyler W Phillips) writes:
>
>	Thanks to all who helped, but it seems that I was not specific enough
>about the nature of the problem.  On my friends IIe, the joystick works fine,
>centering at about 127 and maxing at 255.  Put it on my IIgs, and it centers at
>about 40 and maxes at 80.  Oddly enough, it seems to work perfectly within that
>0 to 80 range.  Unfortunately, that doesn't help unless the game lets you 
>center your joystick before play.  This leads me to believe that it is actually
>a problem with the computer, and not the joystick....

I have had strange experiences with joysticks myself. I have a
//e and a //c, and two joysticks (Starfighter and Quickshot). The
Starfighter can go from 0 to 255 in my //e with no problem. But the
Quickshot gets approx same numbers you got... 0 to 80 or so. But the
Quickshot works perfectly fine on my //c (0 to 255). So my solution was
to leave the Starfighter on my //e and the Quickshot on my //c and never
looked into the problem again. Now that you brought this up, can someone
explain this? Thanks.

Thomas.