Maximum joy from the stick..

CRAZG · 28 May 2007, 06:30

Its a STAR-CURSOR "Professional Computer Joystick System" (..hey that could be my job title..) by Multicoin Amusements P/L, Model MCA201.
On the base it has a rotating switch that changes 4-Way to 8-Way, it works on both settings. I'm guessing it is just a joystick independant switching extension. Does the amiga support 8 switches (and two buttons btb), as far as I know there is no signal encoding on the joystick ports, is there?

Jope · 28 May 2007, 08:28

Four directions and two (or three) buttons.

29 May 2007, 02:59

AFAIK.. on those old aussie Star Cursor joysticks, the 4-way switch just disables the 4 diagonal directions.. so it should always be on 8-way

T_hairy_bootson · 29 May 2007, 04:31

it has four microswitches(not including fire buttons), flicking the switch at the bottom rotates a round piece of plastic that makes it impossible for two microswitches to be activated at once.

Photon · 29 May 2007, 11:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by VermillioN

AFAIK.. on those old aussie Star Cursor joysticks, the 4-way switch just disables the 4 diagonal directions.. so it should always be on 8-way

The reason it's there is because of Pac-Man. In Pac-Man you want to turn in 90° steps, not 45, all the time.

Also desirable in games like Amidar / Quix, and platformers where you jump with a button. Take Super Mario Brothers, most of the time you want to keep the computer from recognizing anything but left or right. Diagonal moves consistently cause trouble in SMB on a NES emu with my PC joypad.

CRAZG · 30 May 2007, 04:13

Thanks for the replies, this is a really cool joystick

Zetr0 · 30 May 2007, 15:31

you can add PC GAMEPORT analogue joystics if you dont mind a smidge of soldering

heres a pinout spec I did for Fingers whom wanted a KB/Mouse switcher.

you can easly use them in conjunction with GAMEPORT specs

CRAZG · 31 May 2007, 06:57

The only gameport joy I have is a playstation clone d-pad, now that would be cool. But only three buttons will work lol
Is it possible to program the mouse/joy ports with some funky protocol? ie. Make extra buttons char to keyboard buffer?

28 May 2007, 06:30	#1
CRAZG 2 heads are more than 1 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Tauranga / New Zealand Posts: 38	Maximum joy from the stick.. Its a STAR-CURSOR "Professional Computer Joystick System" (..hey that could be my job title..) by Multicoin Amusements P/L, Model MCA201. On the base it has a rotating switch that changes 4-Way to 8-Way, it works on both settings. I'm guessing it is just a joystick independant switching extension. Does the amiga support 8 switches (and two buttons btb), as far as I know there is no signal encoding on the joystick ports, is there?

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28 May 2007, 08:28	#2
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	Four directions and two (or three) buttons.

29 May 2007, 02:59	#3
VermillioN Posts: n/a	AFAIK.. on those old aussie Star Cursor joysticks, the 4-way switch just disables the 4 diagonal directions.. so it should always be on 8-way

29 May 2007, 04:31	#4
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	it has four microswitches(not including fire buttons), flicking the switch at the bottom rotates a round piece of plastic that makes it impossible for two microswitches to be activated at once.

30 May 2007, 04:13	#6
CRAZG 2 heads are more than 1 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Tauranga / New Zealand Posts: 38	Thanks for the replies, this is a really cool joystick

30 May 2007, 15:31	#7
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	you can add PC GAMEPORT analogue joystics if you dont mind a smidge of soldering heres a pinout spec I did for Fingers whom wanted a KB/Mouse switcher. you can easly use them in conjunction with GAMEPORT specs

31 May 2007, 06:57	#8
CRAZG 2 heads are more than 1 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Tauranga / New Zealand Posts: 38	The only gameport joy I have is a playstation clone d-pad, now that would be cool. But only three buttons will work lol Is it possible to program the mouse/joy ports with some funky protocol? ie. Make extra buttons char to keyboard buffer?

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