Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major) writes...

>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
>>     As for controls, the PC versions also supports mouse, trackball,
>> joystick and gamepads. I suppose the Macintosh port is limited to 
>> what you can plug into the ADB port. Back on topic here, I'm still
>> looking forward to seeing that Gameboy emulator released for the
>> IIgs, even if it doesn't support sound yet. :)
> 
>Uh, I already have a Mac joystick that is ADB and can be connected
>through my Apple keyboard.  

    Where do you connect your mouse after doing this? :) I kind 
of like the idea of having a serial connector for the mouse and a 
separate connector for the joystick on the PC. The Apple IIgs at 
least has _both_ an ADB port and a joystick port, so each can be 
connected at once. Yes, I'm aware of daisying-chaing ADB devices, 
but I assume Mac joysticks/gamepads are designed to be placed at 
the end of a chain and have no female ADB connector plug. 

>Whether you *have* a joystick or not does not make it necessarily 
>compatible with the emulator if they only wrote keyboard suppport 
>for what they've ported....

    As I said above, MAME PC (and I believe System 16 as well) do 
have support for joysticks, gamepads and trackballs, in addition 
to the default keyboard support. Gamepad support is especially
nice on the Nintendo and SuperNintendo emulators. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca