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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Analog Joysticks
Keywords: Analog, Joystick, Full-range
Message-ID: <5219@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 07:12:51 GMT
References: <12539@steinmetz.ge.com> <8@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> <5204@cbmvax.UUCP> <202@kesmai.COM>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <202@kesmai.COM> dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) writes:
> In article <5204@cbmvax.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
> > 1) The pinout for the analog joysticks is supposed to compatible with
> >    traditional game machine game paddles / analog joysticks - you
> >    shouldn't need any sort of adapter for these.
> > 
> > 2) Most of these things seem to come in around 470K - give or take
> >    a factor of two.  You can diddle the pot values or add some more
> >    timing capacitance, but there are some trade-offs.  Increasing
> >    resistance increase noise level, increasing capacitance may
> >    decrease repetability.
> I don't know where you find these things.  I hadn't thought to look at
> game paddles but they wouldn't be useful to me anyway as I need two axis
> control, all the game joysticks I've ever seen weren't analog, they were
> the four quadrant switchy things.

I dunno really, it's been almost two years since we went shopping for such
toys.  My recollection was that we went over to the local Games and Gadgets
chain store and in a corner of one shelf there were an assortment of devices
marked "Commodore/Atari/Apple" compatible or something along that line, that
included mechanical joysticks, game paddles and some analog joysticks.

Could be I was confused or have forgotten the true facts...  We actually
use a game paddle for testing since the X/Y knobs make for easy position
setting and tend to stay where you set them...


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