Re: Apple /// Joystick

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk> wrote
>
> http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/add2/add8.jpg
>
> You would have to modify the joystick significantly to convert it to
> Apple II spec -- the two work on different electrical signals. Much
> better to pass the joystick on to an Apple III user.
>

Thanks for the info, Phil. I have an Apple ///, so I'll keep it with that.
Interesting that the electronics are incompatible. I have it open (I have
been fixing Apple joysticks, I have three but none worked.) and it looks
about the same inside. The outer parts are identical, except for the color
of the plasic knob on the stick.

BTW, I got all my buttons working by spritzing the switches with WD40. Some
switches have a small hole on the bottom that the WD40 seeped in thru, the
others I got it in thru the top, around the metal that retains the
microswitch. It was like magic, within seconds they were functional.
-Paul