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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Retail News / Sales => Topic started by: Schoenfeld on May 16, 2009, 03:17:19 AM
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In cooperation with Speed-Link, we re-launched the only true joystick in september 2006: The Competition PRO for connection to a C64, Atari, Amiga, MSX and Amstrad/Schneider. The project was a huge success, only a few resellers can ship the cult device from the eighties at the moment. Since an end to the demand is not forseeable, we started a new production run together with Speed-Link. Brand new joysticks for computer-classics of the eighties will be available in july of this year.
The technical data in short:
* a true classic, an icon of retro-gaming
* connects to all retro systems like Amiga, C64, Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Atari, MSX
* six microswitches, two axles, four fire buttons
* upper fire buttons can be switched off
* cable length of 1.80 meters (5.9 ft)
* Powered by Individual Computers, the experts for retro-hardware
The new production run of the Competition PRO Retro was financially supported by our retail partners. The following resellers will carry the new joysticks exclusively until december 31st, 2009:
* AmigaKit (http://www.amigakit.co.uk/) (England)
* Red's Retro Computing (http://www.redsretro.com/) (USA)
* Gentle Eye (http://www.gentle-eye.fi/) (Finland)
* Relec Hard&Software (http://www.relec.ch/) (Switzerland/France)
* Vesalia (http://www.vesalia.de) (Germany)
Speed-Link will also sell a small quantity of the Competition PRO Retro in their Online-Shop. The new joysticks will be available in july 2009 for a price of 14,99 EUR(*). Also look for bundle-offers at the reseller of your choice!
Our smaller, but not less important resellers Protovision (http://www.protovision-online.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=110) and Alinea-Computer (http://shop.alinea-computer.de/product_info.php?products_id=216) still have a small quantity of the Competition PRO Retro in stock; if you don't want to wait until july, you can order the ultimate gaming device for your favourite computer without any delays!
(*) recommended retail price including German sales tax of 19%. Prices at our retail partners may vary. For mail ordering, shipping may be added.
Speed-Link (http://www.speed-link.com/)
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Will this work with two-button Amiga games and Master System games? Or do the four fire buttons have the same function?
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All four buttons trigger the same signal. There was hardly any standard for an extra button on the 9-pin connector. Sega and Atari used different standards.
You'll have to wire the buttons to your own needs, or just play oldschool with a single button.
To be honest, I only know a single game that makes use of a second button, and that's Turrican. However, where's the fun if you don't slam on the space key every now and then :-)?
Jens
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Is that the one with the red or the chrome buttons ?
[color=FF0000]x303[/color] :-D :-D :-D
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I'd like to see somebody re-launch the Konix Speedking ... now THATS a joystick! :-)