: If you want to make multi-player games, the best way
:is to use the joystick port. You can easily connect two MSXs
:without any additional hardware, or make a ring connecting
:several MSXs.
: In the last MSX meeting in Brasil (Jau'98) we
:presented a game for up to 14 players (each one in one MSX),
:to be played in a MSX-ring connected by the joystick port.
:You just need two female DB-9 connectors and wire to make
:the cable. Cheap ! It really works ! Lots of people saw it!
: The cable used was the F1-Spirit 3D cable, that is
:the same as the used to play F-16 in combat mode.
: I think that we must accept that cable as a
:standard in joystick port communication. The software can
:be made according the needings of each case.
: Soon we will present our game (in BASIC) with all
:the source code of the communication routine (in Assembly).
: Developing multi-player games surely will make the
:MSX meetings more funny and will help the MSX to continue
:strongly alive.
: Greets
: Werner Kai
The game I'm programming will also have a multiplayer-option. I'd like to
make one of the options a link via a joystick cable. Since I'd like to be
'compatible', I'd like to have the 'pin-layout' of this connector you're
talking about.
My guess it that it is just a double twist connecting Left/Right/Up to
Trig1/Trig2/Ouput8
However, I do not know the right ones...
If I've got this info I can also write a universal driver for it if you
want... I've already figured out how the driver should be like...
~Grauw
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