Joystick identification

[Tricky]

The Mindscape appears to have a pistol grip, which doesn't fit the description the way I read it.  I remember seeing an Epyx 500XJ back in the day, that seems to match the description better.  I thought I remembered it with two buttons when I read this post but the picture just reminded me of the blank space where the other fire button should be!  Maybe there is a two-button version of this in existence.  It's a shame more joysticks weren't produced with two buttons (as in two different buttons, not just wired together on the same pin!), and games written to use them both.

Personally, I use Sega Megadrive pads.  Good on Sega for using a pre-existing standard!  Although pins 7 and 9 are unfortunately the wrong way round for the Amiga to access buttons A and Start.  An adapter would be easy though.

[Tricky]

My Dad used to use an analog stick on a lot of flight sims without any software hacks.  That was a PC analog stick through an adapter that he made.  Even though the PC joystick port of the time had a lot more than 9 pins, it didn't seem to need any of them, as it was a straight pin-to-pin!

I wanted to make an adapter to connect Playstation pads to the Amiga.  Should be do-able.  I'm using a USB optical mouse on my miggy through a USB to PS/2 adapter and a PS/2 to Amiga gameport thing that we made.  That's kind of fun and makes people go "eh?"  It's only a circuit off the internet... oh all the stuff you can do with a PIC!