> -----Original Message----- > > The problem with an Atari style joystick is that it uses a common > > ground. This means all of the keys to operate a game would need > > His device was smart and interfaced with the system bus and was > accessed via an IO port.
Seems to me that somebody had a scheme a while back where the joystick
interfaced with the parallel port and status was polled that way (this avoids
having to build a custom interface).
jim
