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USB joystick adaptor
« on: March 08, 2004, 01:05:53 PM »
Over on Atariage, I found information about The Stelladaptor. This is a small USB device that gives you an Atari 2600 joystick port, to which you can connect joysticks and paddles. So what, I hear you ask? Well, the Atari 2600 had the same joystick ports as Amigas! Might be a nice thing to get AmigaOS/MorphOS drivers for.

I wonder if its compatible enough to work with CD32 pads?
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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2004, 02:59:49 PM »
no telling......
But isn't there a way to use a USB josstick/pad on MorphOS tho?
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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2004, 03:39:51 PM »
Yes. Just plug it in (provided you have Poseidon 2.2 installed). Works with lowlevel.library compliant games. To configure the other buttons use the USB HID prefs.
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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2004, 03:43:30 PM »
If the information returned by the Stelladaptor is in standard HID compliant format, the adaptor would work with Poseidon straight away. But I doubt it would work with CD32 pads (for more than two fire buttons), because the CD32 pad has to be read using an output line, and I think that adaptor will only /read/ from the pad.
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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2004, 07:30:04 PM »
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Yes. Just plug it in (provided you have Poseidon 2.2 installed). Works with lowlevel.library compliant games. To configure the other buttons use the USB HID prefs.


Lowlevel.library???
Is that like sprockets on OSX?
Just curious....
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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2004, 07:39:06 PM »
No idea what "sprockets" is, but lowlevel.libray allows you to "do system unfriendly things in a system legal way", and read joysticks.

AmigaInput is the replacement for OS4 for controller reading, most of the other functionality in lowlevel.library is irrelevant on anything other than a CD32 and was included with OS3.1 mainly for compatibility reasons.

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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2006, 08:10:25 PM »
I ordered the Stelladaptor from atariage.com and it arrived yesterday.  Amazing!  

It works out of the box with Amiga Forever.  The package also mentioned an Atari 2600 emulator.  I downloaded it and the ROM for Kaboom (I own 2 copies) and was able to play it on my laptop using Atari 2600 paddles!

Very nice!  My congrats to the folks at www.pixelspast.com


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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2006, 12:56:14 AM »
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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2006, 04:50:40 AM »
What a cool idea!

Nice to see that the old Atari 2600 is well supported by that site, didn't realise you could get unpopulated cartridge PCBs ready for homebrew stuff!

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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2006, 10:10:07 AM »
It won't work for most games on AmigaOS (classic anyway) as most games turn off the OS, so you lose access to your USB ports.

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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2006, 11:09:41 AM »
Sorry to be pedantic, but why would you plug an Atari-style joystick into a USB adaptor on a classic Amiga when there are two perfectly usable 9-pin Atari-style joystick ports built in?!  :-)

For PC-based emulator gaming, this is a great product!

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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2006, 04:04:18 PM »
So you can have more than two ports.

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Re: USB joystick adaptor
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2006, 04:37:41 PM »
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What a cool idea!

Nice to see that the old Atari 2600 is well supported by that site, didn't realise you could get unpopulated cartridge PCBs ready for homebrew stuff!

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Yep..very nice site for the Atari at atariage.com   The 2600 is my second favorite Jay Miner engineered product!  I recently picked up a working 2600 and 22 games for $40 on Ebay (really no car boot involved!)  

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