knutsen@aramis.rutgers.edu (Mark Knutsen) (10/21/87)
In article <7095@oliveb.UUCP> dragon@oliveb.UUCP (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you) writes: > MY 8 bit trakball (which I picked up for $8 since they are selling them at > every Kaybee toy store around here for that price) emulates a joystick and > has a 'native' trakball mode. If one feeds the raw signals to the > appropriate pins on the ST the trakball works like a mouse. I stand corrected. I have a Wico trakball, which won't do this. Tidbit: the Wico trakball for the Odyssey II game system works perfectly well on the Atari 8-bits & STs as a joystick, and may possibly be purchased for amnormally pithy amounts from dealers who don't know this & think "almost noone has an Odyssey, I'd better sell that trakball cheap." --Mark K. -- _________________________________ Jersey ||| _____________________________ ARPA: knutsen@rutgers.edu | Atari / | \ | GEnie GE Mail: M.KNUTSEN UUCP: {...}!rutgers.edu!knutsen | ||| Computer | The JACG BBS: (201)298-0161 --------------------------------- / | \ Group ----------------------------- "Yow! I'm the ONLY Atari 8-bit user at Rutgers University!"