finn@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (John Finn) (03/17/90)
I'd like to purchase joystick and paddles for an Apple ][+. Local
computer stores don't carry any, and claim it will take weeks (or
longer) to order a joystick - and paddles don't appear in their
catalogs.
Can someone suggest a mail-order outfit where I can order some
game controllers? Please reply via e-mail, and thanks.
J. Finn
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===========================================================================nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) (03/17/90)
you want a game controler? go to radio shack and buy 2 150k pots buy a 16pin cable (I don't know what it's called) buy some wire and connect to the appropriate pins buy two fire buttons and connect them also. If you want pinouts, I can give them to you. but why pay $40 when you can make your own for $5 or otherwise, radio shack also sells an apple compatible joystick for about $20 nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu
dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah) (03/20/90)
In article <NAGENDRA.90Mar16154632@bucsf.bu.edu> nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes: >you want a game controler? > > go to radio shack and buy 2 150k pots > buy a 16pin cable (I don't know what it's called) > buy some wire and connect to the appropriate pins > buy two fire buttons and connect them also. > If you want pinouts, I can give them to you. > but why pay $40 when you can make your own for $5 > or otherwise, radio shack also sells an > apple compatible joystick for about $20 > >nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu Make sure you get linear potentiometers. When I lived in Taiwan, the Apple joysticks (old Hayes Mach III knockoffs) all used regular pots (tuned for audio volume controls?) which meant that you had pretty good control for left/top side movement, but the joystick would go to crap for paddle values greater than 127. This usually manifested as unequal responses in moving left/right or up/down. Some of those old Taiwan joysticks didn't even use 150K pots...they used 100Ks and fudged. This is all back from about 4 years ago...things may have changed. Hayes used to advertise their linear potentiometers as a great boon to joystick response...it's true. CH makes the best durn joysticks I've ever come across. -- Dave Seah | O M N I D Y N E S Y S T E M S - M | Internet: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu | User Friendly Killing Machines | America Online: AFC DaveS .............................................................................. // Infinitum! // Infinitum! // Infinitum! // Infinitum! // Inifinitum!