Joystick/keyboard conflict

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From: A Ness
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1988 22:50

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Hi ,

I wondered if any of you have had the problem I have just discovered....
When I am using my joystick, I sometimes get characters generated as though
the IKB processor is mis-interpreting joystick signals. It only happens when
the joystick is moved very quickly. Could it be I have an old IKB (my Atari 
was 2 last January). The reason I found out about it was I have just bought
a copy of Gunship by Microprose (its an excellent game - totally absorbing)
and the keys it seems to mistake most often are the ones that alter the 
position of the collective - i.e. they make me fly up out of control or worse
crash .
Any comments/hints/suggestions will be most gratefully received.

--Andie.
Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science ,Edinburgh University.

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From: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (A Ness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Joystick/keyboard conflict
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Date: 24 Apr 88 22:50:26 GMT
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