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are there any commercial a2600 joystick adpaters for the pc?

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I did a search and found a couple of build your own adapters... I'd rather not build one if I can buy one somewhere.

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Don't think about getting one from Junies Creations. I tried....never received anything! :x It's been nearly a year now.

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just build your on.. I know you don't want to .. its just easier to deal with.

 

there are no commercial adaptors being made right now.. so as far as being lazy and just buying one prefab...yer SOL..

 

I have allready explained the easy way ( in my opinion ) of doing this in a previous thread inthe emulation forum. it basicly envolves taking a existing 2600 joystick, yanking the cord, then soldering the contacts from the stick to the contacts on a cheap ass gravis game pad.

 

hey.. it aint the lazy method yer looking for..but it aint hard to deal with either, just takes a little work.

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But a real adapter needs to support the POT signals too for paddle support. Hacking a gravis gamepad won't work for that, will it?

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Never soldered a single good connection in my life. If I had, I probably would have not only made my own 2600 to PC parallel port connector years ago, but I'd probably be selling them through AtariAge ;)

 

Rob

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Why don't you just use your computer's 9 pin serial port? You know, the one that used to be for mice and joystics? I know there should be a program that will let it run a 2600 joystic (or alter the feedback till you get it right)

 

Otherwise, I know Radioshack has 9-15 pin converters. You'll still need a controller program to change what your joystic does so the game can read it.

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A couple years back I purchased a couple of PC Competitors. http://www.competitor.de/

 

The competitor worked perfectly and supports 2 Joysticks. It also worked with Commodore 64 controllers and Colecovison. Although it's obvious the keypad on the Coleco controller did not work, everything else did.

 

Good luck in finding one ....

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Link not found on this server. :P

 

Why don't you just use your computer's 9 pin serial port?  You know, the one that used to be for mice and joystics?  I know there should be a program that will let it run a 2600 joystic (or alter the feedback till you get it right)

 

Otherwise, I know Radioshack has 9-15 pin converters.  You'll still need a controller program to change what your joystic does so the game can read it.

I've heard about programs that read the comm ports to gather Atari stick info...but I've never seen a single one. Anyone?

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There was a thread dealing with this earlier,

 

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...ht=amiga+player

 

To save you scrolling, this is the answer:

 

 

the easiest way is the amiga 4 player adaptor. gives you two atari ports from your pc parrallel port.

 

ok, heres where i bought my last one:

 

http://www.amigastuff.co.uk/partnumber.asp...PLAY&Page=type1

 

here is the software to drive it:

http://www.geocities.com/deonvdw/PPJoy.htm

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dont tell me macs dont have or cant add a card to get, a parrallel port?

Besides, the question in the topic was about an adaptor for the 'PC' :-P

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