[Coco] Nitros9 Xpad driver

[RJRTTY at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/25/2009 12:27:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:



>
>I don't recall if there is one or not Roy.  I have one of  those, and it 
uses 
>at least as much I/O as a serial port.  However,  if space for that can be 
>found in the coco3's limited I/O space, the  driver itself should be 
fairly 
>easy, just put the read data into the  already designated mouse packet.  I 
>believe it can also do mouse  clicks but its been 20 years since I played 
with 
>mine so that may be in  error.  Very faint, probably moldy memory tells me 
its 
>resolution  needed another 1 or 2 bits of width both ways to reach what 
the 
>coco3's  gfx can do.  That makes the data, for h position more than byte 
wide,  
>and that may be why I got sidetracked and quit fooling with  it.

>-- 
>Cheers, Gene
 
 
 
Thanks Gene,  I can write both the driver and descriptor if
I have to I just didn't want to reinvent the wheel if some one else
had already done it.    
 
The resolution is 8bit but that can be worked around for the higher
screen modes of the coco3.   
 
and yes it uses 12 volts.
 
Well looks like time to get back into Nitros9 and refamiliarize
myself with writing assembly for it.    It will be a nice  break
from all the work I have been doing with converter production.
 
Roy
 
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