Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Path: utzoo!censor!bert!tomk
From: tomk@bert.ER.Bell.CA (Tommy Kanary)
Subject: A1000 - Joystick Port 2 dead
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.163032.11081@bert.ER.Bell.CA>
Reply-To: tomk@censor.UUCP ()
Organization: E&R, Bell Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 1991 16:30:32 GMT

Games Port 2 has died on my Amiga 1000 for the second time in the last
year? The last time I had it fixed by a dealer for $100+. This is 
getting expensive. Bearing in mind I have only had the system apart
to put in a Spirit IN1000 1.5 MB daughter board upgrade, I have
the following questions to ye all hardware guys.

	1) Is this failure usually caused by one IC going?
	If so what one? If so is it solder in or a socket?
	If so is there a replacement part number? Is it
	one of these Commodore special chips or can I get
	replacements at a electronics shop?

	2) What is causing these failures. The Amiga is used
	as the neighbourhood games machine so lots of young kids
	are yanking out joysticks and plugging them back in many
	times a week when the system is powered up. I have seen
	some sort of buffer boxes on sale which plug into a games
	port on one side, with a joystick and mouse port on the other,
	which will allow both devices to be plugged in all the time,
	switching between them. Are these a good investment?

If anyone could suggest a $10 IC swap fix the Amiga players
on this street will thank you. I never noticed before but almost
all action / arcade games require port 2. Why?
-- 
Tom Kanary (416) 978-1303
Engineering & Research, Bell Canada
393 University Ave., Toronto, Ont, M5G-2E1
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