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Offline jeffimix

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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2003, 12:00:22 AM »
Slightly OT, how does one get something luike say... a sega genesis gamepad, to work on an Amiga, or maybe... Atari 2600 gamepad...
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2003, 12:53:47 AM »
It's without a doubt TAC-2 for me. The one with the metal stick, the plastic one doesn't make the same familiar sound.  :-D

When I first played the C64 the joystick of choice for everyone I knew was "The Boss". It did suck majorly though, but I guess we'd never used anything else back then.  ;-)

I did have a Quickshot (I think it was called that) that was lovely, until I broke it in two during a frantic game of Ace on my C64.

And Cheetah's The Bug was great too.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2003, 01:00:58 AM »
@jeffimix

A Sega Genesis pad will work with any Amiga without modification.  But only one fire button will work, there's probably hacks on Aminet that'll make the other buttons work like a CD32 pad, but not a lot of games support that (I think)
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2003, 01:27:09 AM »
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I may have a simplistic view, but I love the
Epyx 500XJ joystick.


Yep... Me too.  I liked it better than the "gummy" Wico Ergo-Stick thing.  Something about those durable click-switches, the short throws for movement in any direction, and the quick snap back of it.  The beige/black Wico had problems with sticking in directions.  

For conventional joysticks, I liked the big Wico arcade Red/Black sticks.  Commanders, I think they were called?  

The gravis analogs were awesome for all 3 games that supported analog...  I also have an Epyx joystick that looks like a 500XJ that was cut up...  It has two buttons, and an ANALOG stick.  Strange thing, but works pretty well.  Used to love it for FighterDuel.  ;-)
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2003, 01:58:05 AM »
Can't remember the name but my favourite was really this one;

An analog joystick in red and black (red in the buttom and black on top) It has a red handle with a white fire button (porno eh? :-)), hmm... and it also has an extra red fire button for the left hand on the black top... + a switch to toggle between the buttons... It says "TOP" on the black top... hmm... Some of the models has excangable handles -also in red... One with grib, one with a ball, and one with a coneish thing...

Well it is the best -unbreakable- joystick on the face of the earth
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2003, 11:12:01 AM »
I think the TAC 2 if my favorit, even if I have destroyed many of them along the years I played much Amiga.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2003, 11:15:24 AM »
Competition Pro 5000 / it's various incarnations (not the 9000, however!)

The TAC-2 sucks heavily, I don't understand why it got such a cult status .. did people start hyping it because the case said "tested to 5 million moves and it didn't break"?
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2003, 11:50:59 AM »
Got to be the Zip Stick for me!

Got about 5 of them over the years , mainly worn out my massive SWOS tournaments (Just like my Shift keys from too much Pinball!)

Now only 1 1/2 of them work.  One one direction goes you just take 'em apart and change over the microswitches.  Them were the days!
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2003, 11:58:42 AM »
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Gerbinist wrote:
There can be only One...

The Arcade ;-)

Look at that beauty:
http://lsp.hjem.wanadoo.dk/Thearcade.htm


The Arcade gets my vote too!
I still have the one I got for my C=64 back in 1983...
... and, yes, it still works!!

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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2003, 11:58:56 AM »
nothing beats the great arcade, it was as popular as the amiga itself! everybody i knew had this joystick for playing games on his amiga...
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2003, 12:13:19 PM »
The ZIPSTICK!!!! Ultimate microswitch joystick ever invented.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2003, 01:10:31 PM »
Best of the BEST : SPEEDKING, specially for final whistle and related football SW, good at everything.
Lio
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2003, 01:41:09 PM »
The Atari stick that came with the 2600, what a monster, if you could use that for long periods of time without soar hands your doing well, good stick ;-)

Quickshot 2 Pro i liked, also loved the Maverick  pictured below, had used that for many a long session in SWOS...




Top of the list is the mighty Zipstick SuperPro, a complete joy to use and usally quite easy to fix if it ever broke down, solid and reliable beasty.
 Best all round stick i've ever owned on Amiga  :-)
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2003, 01:48:40 PM »
I liked the wico boss.  It had a molded grip and a firebutton on the top of the stick.  That stick survived my C64, 128, A500, A2000 and finally my A4000.  It is still going strong.
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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2003, 03:59:36 PM »
Konix speedking



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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« Reply #29 from previous page: July 09, 2003, 04:17:11 PM »
 [color=FF0000]WICO command control three-way deluxe[/color] -- can take basically any hardship apart from a nuclear blast :-)
Got one somewhere late eighties and it still works perfectly (i broke a TAC-2 in 2 months).


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