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From: dzenc@hermes.ai.mit.edu (Daniel Zenchelsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 4-way player adaptor
Keywords: pinouts
Message-ID: <3362@hermes.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 13 May 89 00:42:19 GMT
References: <952@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Reply-To: dzenc@hermes.ai.mit.edu.UUCP (Daniel Zenchelsky)
Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <952@syma.sussex.ac.uk> nealet@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Neale Type) writes:
>Dear All, Does anyone know the pinouts for the 4-way player adaptor for
>the serial port, as there about 5(english pounds) to buy, and i bet alot
>cheaper to make one yourself...

Sure, here you go:

Parallel Connector    Game connector 1          Game connector 2
------------------    ----------------          ----------------
  Pin 25 (GND)                    8     and             8
  Pin 2  (UP)                                           1
  Pin 3  (DOWN)                                         2
  Pin 4  (LEFT)                                         3
  Pin 5  (RIGHT)                                        4
  Pin 13 (FIRE)                                         6
  Pin 6  (UP)                     1
  Pin 7  (DOWN)                   2
  Pin 8  (LEFT)                   3
  Pin 9  (RIGHT)                  4
  Pin 11 (FIRE)                   6
------------------    ----------------          ------------------

WARNING!!: Do NOT connect anything to pin #14 on the parallel connector.
           Thats the +5 volts from the Amiga, and is one of the few pins
           that can get you into BIG trouble!!

This is for the A500/2000 not the 1000 (I think, I haven't actually built it.)

-Dan

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