[Coco] Joystick alternatives

Michael Brant brant.michael.l at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 16:34:55 EDT 2015


I was looking for alternatives.  Possibly at atari to CoCo adapter. I have
a bunch of those joysticks already.
On Mar 11, 2015 4:30 PM, "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:39:47AM -0400, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> > On Tue Mar 10 2015, Michael Brant wrote:
> >
> > I am looking for joysticks for my CoCo 3.  Not sure best route to go.
> > >
> >
> > The wiring info you can get from the CoCo 2 Service Manual at
> > http://tinyurl.com/nfgw3ja - page 46 or so. A 100k pots joystick can be
> > wired to suit if you'd like to roll your own, two buttons and a 6 pin DIN
> > plug is the basics.
> >
> > If you find any of the Kraft joystick sold for the IBM PC (
> > http://tinyurl.com/owu48aa) they will come with a plug that you'll have
> to
> > replace with the 6 pin DIN as used in the CoCo.
> >
> > These Kraft joysticks often show up on Ebay pointed to use on the IBM
> PCJr.
>
> Surely it is still sufficiently easy to find Tandy Deluxe joysticks?
> They don't seem any less rare than PCJr stuff...
>
> John
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