Re: Needed: Trackball converting instructions

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From: Mark Knutsen
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1987 14:44

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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.
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Subject: Re: Needed:  Trackball converting instructions
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 10:44:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 10:44:40 1987
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