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From: edg@ingres.com (Ed Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Epyx 500xj-like joystick
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.163856.11909@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 91 16:38:56 GMT
Reply-To: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
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Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
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In article <1991Feb17.182801.17181@sarah.albany.edu> it was written:
>
>I'm looking for some new (or "just out of the box") Epyx 500-XJ joysticks,
>and/or a mail-order number that I can order them from.  They seem to be 
>rather hard to come by nowadays, which figures, since they're the best
>joystick I ever owned (mine died from overuse after almost a year of
>non-stop playing).  Any help - emailed, o'course - would be VERY much 
>appreciated.  Oh, if yer sellin' 'em, name a price.  Thanks!
>
[Sorry, tried to email, but bounced ...]

In a recent issue of a UK games magazine they were reviewing joysticks and
one of em looked exactly like the 500xj except under a different name.  It
got a good review too, but not the best.  If you're interested I could 
probably find some mail-order info for it.  But it's in the UK ...

BTW, I was also looking for the 500xj and found a store where the guy had
one out that he said he'd sell for $10.  I ended up getting a Wico Ergostick
(or something like that) -- they're the same basic shape and trigger like the
500xj.

Epyx went out of business and these sticks have been scarce, although I've 
seen lots of them for Apple/IBM in various stores.

-edg-