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From: platkus@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Help with joystick (a clarification)
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.184418.25903@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 18:44:18 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.  Is there anything I could
>have done that would make the joystick behave this way?  (after all, the
>original joystick worked for about 6 months before these symptoms appeared.)
>I suppose if I cannot figure it out, I will have to return the joystick after
>all (and a damn fine joystick it is too :-( ).  Thanks again.
>
>tyler@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

I heard a looong time ago about a few GSes that came with bad joystick ports or
something that caused a similar problem to what you described!  Don't get
too excited though, this was about three yrs ago.  What kind of GS do you have

ROM1 or 3, and when did you get it?

Platkus