Re: IIGS - ADB Joystick work?

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ADB joysticks tended to just be a mouse, stick style. Most of them even
worked on the IIgs. There are a few ADB peripherals that didn't though.
Generally those also required software on the Mac side to work, too.
The Gravis MouseStick/II controllers tended to work, though there were
multiple buttons only one worked. They didn't track very fast as a
mouse but if you twiddled with the ADB directly you could read data at
the speed of which the stick was moved. But the general support was
pretty consistant speed with GS/OS and using it as a mouse. The Gravis
Firebird was a bit more feature loaded and also functioned pretty
plainly on a IIgs.

About the only thing that I can think of right this moment that didn't
work as well was the Curtis trackballs, Abaton, ( I think), and Apple's
ergonomic split keyboard. You could use half of it. Because it was in
actuality, two keyboards where one talked to the other via ADB and then
the that talked to the computer. The IIgs ADB firmware was not up to
this. the design was kind of on the sly utilizing a single controller
instead of two within the keyboard. Had it had two it probably would
have worked.