Re: ADB Joystick on a GS

["Simon D. Williams" <email@ld8.org>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Linards Ticmanis wrote:
> > Mitchell Spector wrote:
> >
> >>     I believe it's possible to adapt DE-9 joysticks from the PC to
> >> work on
> >> the Apple II, with a bit of tweaking. As a matter of fact several
> >> brands used
> >> to have an "IBM / Apple II" switch built-in the joystick. I wonder if
> >> a DE-9
> >> digital gamepad could be made to work--that would be interesting!
> >
> >
> > Actually I believe DE-9 joysticks (Atari / Commodore / Amstrad / Sega
> > etc.) are a different kind of beast than PC joysticks. The
> > Atari/Commodore sticks were always digital, while most PC (and Apple)
> > sticks were analog devices.
> >
> > Building an adapter for use of a PC joystick on an Apple is perfectly
> > possible. In fact schematics exist somewhere, in the GSWorldView archive
> > IIRC.
>
> Of course, you can build adapters for the digital sticks, too--but
> they will still be digital (centered, half-scale up, half scale up
> and right, etc.).  It's a little more complicated than adapters for
> PC sticks, since that just means adding a couple of capacitors.

They're available new on eBay and quite inexpensive... I think an Atari
stick would be vastly superior for a lot of arcade games than the
analog type. Personally I find games like Ms Pac Man and Robotron to be
virtually unplayable with the standard Apple joystick. But that's
probably because I'm crap at games anyway ;-)