Re: TI-H: Joystick

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: Joystick
From: "ryan pogge" <ryanpogge@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:35:18 PST
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


I already designed this for my 92 some time back
I found a gamepad last year that had a threaded hole in the middle of 
the dirrectonal pad and it came with a lit6tle treaded rod that screwed 
in.
it was the same shape and size as the calc directionsal pad so i swapped 
the two, ive also done it by drilling and threading a hole in the 
existing pad.


>Someone mentioned on here a little while ago about an external joystick
>possibility.  I'd just like to say, WHAT'S THE POINT??????  You'd have
>the calc on the desk, and the joystick next to it!!  and a gamepad?  
You
>wouldn't even be able to hold the calc!  A much better (and cheaper, 
and
>easier, and more reliable, and more efficient, and more readily
>available) option is to put a whole in the calc in the middle of the
>arrow keys, and put a joystick in there, that uses the same contact
>opints as the existing arrow keys.  This ENSURES that it will be
>compatible with all existing games, with no new programming necessary.
>It would be a much simpler process, with no electronics involved, 
simply
>hardware.  Also, You wouldn't have to lug a joystick around with you,
>and plug it in whenever you want to use it.  This option would even be
>compatible with the calc without assembly!!  You could use it in the
>home screen, in any program, or even in the graph screen.  If you want,
>you can make it a push button, so you can push it down when you're not
>using it, and the calc cover will go back on, but it'll pop back up to
>be used.  Well, just a suggestion, but that's what I'm gonna do with
>mine!  Have fun!
>
>-Gul
>
>


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