[Coco] Joystick alternatives
Al Hartman
alhartman6 at optonline.net
Wed Mar 11 18:48:47 EDT 2015
Owning one of those, and having sold lots of them at Spectrum Projects, and
Zebra Systems...
They are no replacement for a real Coco joystick. Coco games are written for
the potentiometer joystick and expect values along the line from minimum to
maximum. This adapter only indicates full left, full righ, full up, and full
down, because that's all an Atari-type joystick can provide.
This will work with some games, but games like Polaris are better with the
potentiometer joystick.
There is a Coco joystick on eBay now, and usually always Apple ][ and IBM
sticks which can be adapted.
-[ Al ]-
----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
>6 available, NOS
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/WICO-Joystick-Adapter-for-RADIO-SHACK-TRS-80-COLOR-COMPUTER-BRAND-NEW-NOS-/331495107797
>
> Not my auction...
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