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From: geert@ahds.UUCP (Geert W.T. Jonkheer CCS/TS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Joyless Joyport
Message-ID: <1984@ahds.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 07:06:50 GMT
References: <4186@meaddata.meaddata.com>
Organization: Ahold NV, Zaandam, Netherlands, EEC
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In article <4186@meaddata.meaddata.com>, johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:
> A friend of mine, who is a big C64/128 fan, has a C64 with a sick joyport.
> The JOY1 port works fine, but when a working joystick is plugged into JOY2,
> it will go left and fire, but not go up, down, or right.  The contacts with
> the port appear to be fine.  Do you have any idea what the problem could be?
There seems nothing wrong, because this is the normal behaviour when
a program wants to use paddles instead of a joystick and a joystick is
used for the paddles. However, when a program uses joysticks and this
problem occurs there is certainly something wrong. (Don't know the
solution then, help).

Geert.