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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Commodore Caveat
Message-ID: <21@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 14:44:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.21
Posted: Wed Jul 11 14:44:02 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 03:35:31 EDT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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A small warning to those looking for cheap joysticks... the local Video
Concepts store is selling Tomy Tudor joysticks for $1.90.  Although the Tomy
stick uses the same 9 pin D connector as Atari/Commodore sticks, the wiring
is completely different.  In fact, if you push the stick forward and to the 
right, this shorts out the +5V and ground on the Commodore, causing, at 
least a blown fuse (I checked it out with a DVM first, fortunately).  To
the store's credit, they did say the stick was not Commodore compatible,
but I couldn't pass it up at that price.  The
Tomy does have two fire buttons, which might make it useful for those of 
us who use sticks for menu selection, etc.  A look at the interior seems
to indicate rewiring would be no big deal.