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Re: Strange input devices fo
Jeff Brielmaier wrote:
c >>From: costa89@sympatico.ca (Costa)
c >
c >Hi everyone,
c >
c >I'm trying to compile a list of input devices for Apple II games for an
c >internet project.
c >
c >So far:
c >
c >Keyboard
c >Mouse
c >Joystick
c >Paddles
c >
c >What I'm not sure about:
c >Light pen?
c >Koala Pad?
c >
c >
c >Have I missed anything else? Thanks in advance for any help you can
c >provide. :)
Don't forget the cassette I/O ports.
Various serial I/O add-in cards.
The Gibson Light Pen (Steve Gibson... Spinrite/ShieldsUp fame) was a
popular (but expensive $350) add-on for the Apple ][ - ][+.
I've got one.
The Koala Pad cetainly did exist for the Apple ][ - //e machine. There
was another similar tablet to the Koala Pad but I don't remember what it
was called off-hand.
The Apple Graphics Tablet. I have the Koala, not the Apple.
TG Products sold a trackball for the ][ - //e (plugged into the 16-pin
DIP socket). Very useful when playing Centipede.
I've got two trackballs for the early Macs (128/512) and was wondering
how or if I could get them to work with the II
Roy
Various internal modems (and any number of external modems if the user
had a serial card in their Apple II).
Numeric keypad add-on device (since the ][ and //e didn't have one).
And after breaking out old copies of Call APPLE magazines....
Voice Recognition (Microphone/IO card/software driver) [$800-900]
Apple Graphic Tablet for Apple ][ - //e.
IEEE-488 and Analog-to-Digital add-in card (control/track external
hardware interfaces/hardware).
Various keyboard macro devices (mostly for the Apple ][) that allowed the
user the program buttons/keys to send a fixed string of keystrokes.
Various type-ahead buffers (Apple ][ mostly)
X-10 interface
Bar code wand reader ($150)
Dual Thermometer interface board ($260)
"The Eye" ($199) burglar/fire detection system (Clock / BSR controller /
household light timer to turn lights on/off / Phone dialer to call the
cops/etc)
* KingQWK 1.05 # [PK] * Error finding COLDBEER.CAN User not loaded !!
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