[Coco] Testing CoCo 2 joystick ports

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 18:33:53 -0700
Russ Bernhardt <russell.bernhardt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've constructed a basic joystick plug with a 6-pin plug and jumper
> wires at the end so I can experiment connecting different things but
> I can't get a simple button test working. 
> 
> I've confirmed no shorts and my test consists of looping in basic
> printing button(0) while touching ground (3) and fire1 (4). 
> 
> The only output I get is "0" no matter if I use left or right
> joystick ports... I even swapped pin 4 and 2 in case I reversed them
> but no dice.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Russ
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 

Russ:

    You have to call JOYSTICK(0) before you can read the other 3 axes
(JOYSTICK(1), etc). Maybe that applies to the buttons as well.

    Try 'PRINT JOYSTICK(0); PRINT BUTTON(0)'

    PEEK()ing should work in any case.



Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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