| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I have been lookinginto the game port capabilies and it seems that
the capabilities of the ports is limited by the game port types
supported in the operating system. I have the "ROM kernel Reference
Manual: Libraries and Devices" Fourth printing Dec 1986 and it
states that;
Page 346;
There are currently three different legal controller types: mouse,
absolute joystick, relative joystick and no controller.
Page 347:
As of this wrting, there is no direct system software for proportional
Joysticks or proportional controllers.
1. Is a proportional Joystick an IBM or Apple type joystick which
reports position based on a varible potentiometer?
2. If so has such support been added?
If all this is true Then it should be possible to create two
proportional joysticks with 5 buttons each.
Thanks in advance
Harry
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2335.1 | joystick + mouse = ??? | DIXIE1::MCDONALD | Surly to bed, surly to rise... | Tue Mar 14 1989 15:18 | 8 |
If joysticks work the same way as Radio Controlled model sticks,
I believe proportional joysticks would work something like a mouse.
The further over you push the joystick, the faster your pointer
moves in that direction. (Oops, waitaminute... that's called
exponential joysticks on RC. Somebody jump in and help me here.
Does this sound right?)
John
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| 2335.2 | STOUT::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Tue Mar 14 1989 15:58 | 11 | |
Earlier in this notes file there was a discussion of how to modify
an IBM compatible proportional joystick to work with the Amiga.
If I remember correctly this would work with Jet (or maybe it was
Flight Simulator II). Anyhow only a very few programs will use
this type of stick. I wish more software would support these.
Especially games. It's sometimes difficult to get a "discrete"
joystick to go down the diagonal.
Proportional does mean "analog" right???
- steve
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