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From: taro@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Taro Nobusawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Problem
Message-ID: <2281@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 88 02:33:05 GMT
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Reply-To: taro@uhccux.UUCP (Taro Nobusawa)
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In article <7497@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@srcsip.uucp (Subash Shankar) writes:
>Now on to the next question.  My GS seems to have an interesting quirk.  All
>old (DOS 3.3 and Prodos 8) games work fine with the joystick.  However, if I
>boot up a Prodos 16 game (or run it from the Finder), the joystick isn't 
>recognized about 2/3 of the time.  When it isn't recognized, I simply reboot
>to a BASIC.SYS disk and run a simple program which uses PDL(0) and PDL(1) (both
>needed), and then I reboot the Prodos 16 game, and everything works OK.  
>The big question - why???  Is this a quirk or is my GS dying.

I'm not sure if this is the problem, but when you switch speeds, the joystick
get's different readings.  I think it has to do with the timing circuitry
since the joystick uses the timing to determine where it's positioned.  All
I need to do is readjust the trim.  If this isn't what's happening with you,
you may be having problems.


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