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Joystick in eaue?
« on: February 16, 2010, 04:21:55 PM »
Can anyone tell me if you have one of those retro usb joysticks, does it work in linux with eau with all your amiga games and stuff?

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Re: Joystick in eaue?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 06:28:28 PM »
Well, I just bought an old USB gamepad from a thrift store for $1.99 and soldered a 9-pin sub-D port onto it (Atari/Commodore style joystick port).  

Works great and now I can use any Atari 2600 compatible joystick with any emulator (VICE, UAE, Stella, etc.)

So, I'm sure that something like those classic USB joysticks or a Stelladapter would work....they just do the same thing but cost more.

The only problem I had on occassion is that I had to set the "dead zone" in UAE's joystick settings to 10%, otherwise UAE always thought the joystick was pushing to the left.  After I figured this out it worked awesomely!
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Re: Joystick in eaue?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 08:06:03 PM »
Joystick :D