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Article #553Re: Joystick Port Question
From: George Robbins
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 08:19
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 08:19
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In article <7991@cs.Buffalo.EDU> uggbrand@cs.Buffalo.EDU (G. Brandon Brooks) writes:
>
> I am trying to design a program that would allow the Atari ST
> mouse to work with my Amiga. My friend has an extra Atari mouse and my Amiga
> mouse is dead, so it would be a lot cheaper to use his extra ST mouse.
> I tried intercepting the signals from the gameport device using
> GPCTRelJoystick and GPCTMouse, but those don't seem to give all the values
> that I need. What I really want to be able to do is to read in the values
> of all 9 pins (or whatever ones the Amiga can read). Is there a way to do
> this that anyone can help me with?
Just make a little adapter that swaps the four quadrature lines around
and it'll work good. Nothing more complicated is needed. I don't
remember the exact pinout difference, but they're in the manuals shipped
with each system.
I don't know that you can do it in software, since Denise processes a
the mouse signals in hardware and if you have X and Y crossed you aren't
going to get anything meaningful.
--
George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Joystick Port Question Message-ID: <7391@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 21 Jul 89 08:19:55 GMT References: <7991@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 24