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.
-- Linards Ticmanis