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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Joyless Joyport
Message-ID: <22.28278699@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 7 May 91 16:46:31 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, John Townsend (johnt@meaddata.com ) wrote:

 >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?

   I've usually been able to fix this by replacing the 6526 closest to the 
keyboard connector.  This is not, however, a guaranteed cure and I don't 
recommend it for anyone not used to replacing soldered ICs on printed circuit 
boards.
 

--  
Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
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