Joystick from scratch: howto

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one of these

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I ordered the joystick adapter in the picture above so I can report how it works once it arrives.

$9 with free shipping from the distant land of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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The Atari adapter came in and I tried it on a windows 8.1 preview PC and I did not need to load any driver.

it can be identified as "Atari Controller USB1" and  "Atari Controller USB2"

used a Konix Epyx 500XJ

no lag noticed. Tried shadow of the beast. CPU is AMD FX8320

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Got one too, altho it won't recognize any other button except the first.

I have connected the 2nd and 3rd button to the mouse buttons wires; so I would expect that it would work.

Anyway, it is cool that at least one button works

I don't think its your wiring. I noticed that the secondary button was not working for me either. I suppose I can try a CD32 controller and see which of those four buttons work. I'm guessing that the standard Atari 2600 never had more than one button so buttons in addition to that are probably not supported and may not even be standardized.

The nice feature is that it comes with a long enough cable to reach the back USB ports on a tower case.