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Offline jeffimix

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Re: Favourite Joystick from good old days.
« 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 #1 on: July 21, 2003, 04:08:38 AM »
The Atari 2600 joystick is IMO a beautiful work of spartan simplicity.  I have a pair called 'Starfighter the Ultimate Joystick'. still work after decades of hard use, they were getting dodgy so I cleaned the contacts with a Q-Tip. They both work great now, although they do have very little resistance to movement, the spring back reasonably well. I'm wondering how necessary 2 buttons are for most amiga games though - or could I just keep using these little critters.
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