Re: A 3-button joystick?

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Tue, 14 May 2002 04:39:35 GMT, msc1983@mac.com (Matthew Carpenter)
wrote:

>   I would like to know if there is any reason to have a joystick with
>three buttons on an Apple IIGS.
>
>   My reason in asking is that while I was at the Goodwill a couple days
>ago I saw a joystick just like the one a friend I used to know about 12
>years ago had on his IIGS.  The only difference being that this one I have
>found is a PC version of the joystick.  I bought the joystick when I left.
>
>   This is a Gravis joystick, it has one fire button on the stick and two
>buttons on the base.  I found a black and white picture at the following
>url:
>http://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n6/gravis.jpg

I have come across many joysticks with more than two buttons on them
but they usually are just putting the same button in more than one
place for convenience.  I've seen joysticks with two buttons on the
left and two buttons on the right but it was just button 0 and 1 on
each side so it could be used easily by either left or right handed
users.

I think I still have my Apple II Gravis like you pictured above and
I'm pretty sure the button on the stick is button 0 and the buttons on
the base are button 0 and 1 so it is another instance of extra buttons
being there for convenience.

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