Re: Joysticks on the TI-92


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Re: Joysticks on the TI-92



>I was looking some of my computer parts when I noticed, the port on the
>top of the 92 that is used for overhead units is the same type of port
>as the joystick port on my laptop. I can easily hook up my joystick to
>the adapter cable that came with the laptop, and the same type of port
>is used on many other laptops.
>
>I was wondering if it would be possible to use this port to build
>joystick support into Fargo programs. For people like me who still have
>those old little joysticks like the one for our PS/1, it would be very
>cool, even on the road. Those old joysticks are usually very simple
>hardware-wise, so the programming wouldn't be to hard or large, but I
>don't know if it can be done on a 92.
>
Probably not: the pin assignments probably would not match up(Ground,
etc.) and even if they did, there is no known way to directly control
that port.

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