Re: Apple IIgs 16 pin game I/O port question

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>>     Pin 5 on the IIe is "Strobe", Pin 5 on the IIgs is +5 volts pull up.
>> Pin 9 on the IIe is unused, Pin 9 on the IIgs is switch 3 (I suppose
>> offering the potential for a 4 button joystick, never saw one).
>
>Ah, yes--I'd forgotten the loss of strobe...  ;-)
>
>And I suspect their hope was that the machine could now support two
>2-button joysticks.  ;-)

    That had always been a disappointment (across the entire Apple II
family) the lack of support for two joysticks at once. On the other 
hand, we did have analog with two (sometimes even three!) buttons, 
whereas most other machines used digital with one button.

Mitchell Spector