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2011-04-19 22:05
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3047
Looking for joystick(s) for C64

Is there any shop that still sells C64 joysticks (preferably with paypal payment option). I'm looking for some small joystick that fits in small hands and is not hard to control for child.

thanx for help.
 
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2011-04-22 04:41
The Phantom

Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360
My c64 joystick was digital?!

I get carried away at times looking for these things. Like an info junkie, always searching and never really finding what I want.

I still say Ebay or something similar is your best bet.

There was a joystick supplier "find" in my searches, perhaps searching for that will increase your chances of finding something near home.
2011-04-22 05:52
Cresh

Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 354
http://allegro.pl/joystick-atari-2600-1-i1562034430.html
2 pcs. on sale.
15,- PLN = ca. EUR 4,- (+ shipping)
2011-04-22 11:15
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3047
The Phantom, I see it like this.


Analog joystick is modern version of old joystick. Coz it doesn't only scan directions but it's parts measure the angle and maybe even speed of the movement of the stick.


In digital joytick you have only 4 directions and fire (plus combinations). One bit for one direction. When you have one bit given to one staste.. that is digital. When you have a row of different numbers scanned in period of real time, that is analog.

Of course, in the end, movement of analog joystick is being digitalized to bits and bytes forming numbers, but that doesn't make it digital. ;-)))
2011-04-22 14:04
The Phantom

Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360
:)

I'm a repair technician and man, what you said.....

Good luck in your quest to find the Holy Joystick, I think Flynn still sells them, lol.
2011-04-22 14:24
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3047
So what is exactly your problem with what I said? Coz except from the simplistic language I used I'm pretty sure that it works exactly as I said (if I didn't mess the logic in my sentences due to crappy language skills that is)

And yes I have studied electronic computer systems for 4 years (that is a secondary school where they teach you everything from soldering through microelectronics to programming.. although it was quite a long ago in 1990-1994). Plus have a degree from informatics and english language (but as you can see that doesn't make everyone excellent in written english ;-)

P.S.: the difference is well explained in wikipedia.

An analog stick is a variation of a joystick, consisting of a protrusion from the controller; input is based on the position of this protrusion in relation to the default "center" position. While digital sticks rely on single electrical connections for movement (using internal digital electrical contacts for up, down, left and right), analog sticks use continuous electrical activity running through potentiometers.
2011-04-23 04:44
The Phantom

Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360
Wow CreaMD, easy there. Didn't mean to offend you in any way.

/me withers away ..
2011-04-23 08:23
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3047
Good for you! ;-)))))

Btw. tjanx everybody for hints, I have meanwhile dug through the box of the joysticks I had in storage room and found one smaller Quick Shot, we'll test it next time Mirka will want to play c64 ;-))))
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