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Offline TjLaZerTopic starter

Amiga power stick!?
« on: June 03, 2004, 04:48:18 AM »
I got a neat little joystick made by Amiga!

Here is what it looks like:

http://www.cedmagic.com/tech-info/remote-control/amiga-power-stick.jpg

Anyone seen one?
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Offline Acill

Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2004, 04:50:08 AM »
Cool looking. Thats the first I've ever seen of it. Where did you get it?
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Offline Ilwrath

Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2004, 05:14:10 AM »
Yeah... I had one of those a while back.  Mine wasn't marked Amiga in any way, though.  What on yours makes you think it was manufactured by Amiga?  (I might still have mine somewhere in the depths of my closet, but I think I sold it with a machine a few years ago.)
 

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Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2004, 05:45:55 AM »
I think that joystick was actually manufactured by Commodore for the C64? It may have even had a partner joystick which came with it and looked a bit more like a conventional joystick.
 

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Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2004, 05:57:57 AM »
This was manufactured by Amiga before the Amiga 1000 was complete and before Commodore bought Amiga to help fund the company. I have the ad for it floating around the house somewhere.
 

Offline TjLaZerTopic starter

Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2004, 06:57:22 AM »
@Ilwrath

It says Amiga on the back of the stick and also on the 9 pin connector!!!  It was made by Amiga, pre Commodore.  The guys that made the Joy Board.  You know Guru Meditation? ;)

Back of stick:
http://www.vintagecomputercafe.com/amiga/powerstick1.jpg

Close up of connector:
http://www.vintagecomputercafe.com/amiga/powerstick2.jpg
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Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2004, 07:35:09 AM »
Greetings,
Cool stick you got there eh? You must be proud.
Too bad it does not have a rapid fire option. :lol:
That would definitly kick alien pixel's {bleep}!

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I wonder if you've seen a joystick without wires, sticks at the side of a C64 and has passthorugh socket so you can still plug-in an extra joystick. Too bad I got no pics for that, though. I think it should go well using GEOS that time. It was nice but easily breaks. Slightest jerk would break the stick off. Wonder anyone here has seen one of those gems. Rare find. :-)

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Offline Ilwrath

Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2004, 08:27:12 AM »
@TjLaZer-

Hmm... mine was blank on the stick, itself, other than the red "Power Stick" sticker.  

Seeing the close-up of that connector, though.  Yeah.  Come to think of it, mine did have the old-school pressed Amiga logo.  I just assumed someone illegally stamped a it to help market to Amiga owners.  Lots of joysticks were labelled with Atari or Commodore logos, yet weren't produced by them.  I never really thought about the fact Amiga, themselves, might have made it.  D'oh!  I might have given away a collectable for free with a fairly low-end system.  :-(  I thought their only other product WAS the Guru Meditator.  (Though, in hindsight, the joystick being the same colors should have tipped me off.)  
 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: Amiga power stick!?
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2004, 08:29:46 AM »
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I wonder if you've seen a joystick without wires, sticks at the side of a C64 and has passthorugh socket so you can still plug-in an extra joystick. Too bad I got no pics for that, though. I think it should go well using GEOS that time. It was nice but easily breaks. Slightest jerk would break the stick off. Wonder anyone here has seen one of those gems. Rare find.


Must be my unlucky day.  I had similiar one of those that matched my C64C.  It had a curly wire that went back to the joyport, and then had passthrough.  Sold it with my C64C back in 1991 -- it was glued to the case.  ;-)  I've never seen one that matched the brown breadbox C64, though.