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From: ewa@silvlis.com (Ernest Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GamePorts
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Date: 30 Jan 89 23:51:05 GMT
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I don't want to beat the joystick issue to death, but I wonder if anyone out
there can help me.  I'm a hardware novice and phrases such as "...you have to
program the 5558 timer, then wait 25 microseconds..." give me the blue creevles.

[Doubtless this will inspire flaming about how programmers should know
*everything* about their machines, etc.  I'm getting there, it just takes
me longer than most.]

Anyway:  Is someone willing to write me an assembly-language routine,
linkable (or "in-line-able") with Turbo or Microsoft C or Pascal, which
will simply return two numbers, each 0 <= N <= 255, which give a joystick
position?  I'm willing to ask my users to center the joystick and then move
it to some extreme, in order to get the bounds; I just want numbers.

Also, how about something that tells me whether button 0 or 1 is pressed
or not when I ask it?  I haven't seen anything here telling how to find out
if a button is pressed.

Thanks very much.

				Ernest Adams