Re: TI-H: Joystick

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Joystick
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:12:17 -0800 (AKDT)
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Or just make one.  Remember the old AIIE joysticks that were based on the
charge/discharge rate of capicators?  The cap would charge up, and then
discharge depending on the location of the stick.  There is one V and one H
signal, so the TI just has to look at the speed of charge and discharge...


>Or we could use the serial joystics from the old atari/sega/genesis/c64.
>9-pin serial, just invert the light flasher so it has input instead of
>output.
>
>
>>In a message dated 7/16/98 10:39:02 PM EST, IANKAPLAN@aol.com writes:
>>
>>> That guy with his add on lists had a stick on it.  What was that?  and is
>it
>>>  possible to make a joystick though the link port
>>>
>>Hey!  That's a good idea!  I don't know if that is possible, but it sounds
>>pretty cool.
>>If anyone has heard of it, someone makes a thingy that converts your arrow
>>keys on a PC to a joystick (no electronics here, just springs).  That idea
>>might be able to be converted to the calculator.
>>
>>Rob Hornick
>>

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