Sam Latella wrote:
Just curious if its possible to create a wireless joystick for the Apple IIgs? It would be really neat to bring back some of the games from yesteryear! On a big screen tv which the IIgs resides by, but not havng to be to close to the tv because of the short joystick cord. Any thoughts.
I have developed a generic VHDL core that works with the Gamecube controller.For those of you with a Carte Blanche, grab a cheap NGC controller extension cord, cut it in half, add a series resistor and wire the data line to a GPIO line on the FPGA, and wire in power, GND.
Integrate the VHDL core into CB, with an Apple joystick emulation front-end, and then attach a wireless Wavebird receiver to the cable (you could mount it on the side of your Apple case for example) and viola!
What's nice about this is that the NGC controllers have both analogue and digital sticks, so you can mix-match to enhance gameplay! For example, arcade games with simple left-right controls are more responsive using the D-PAD to emulate an analogue stick at the extremes of each axis.
Regards, -- | Mark McDougall | "Electrical Engineers do it | <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug> | with less resistance!"