Atari STE/Falcon Controller

[[ProToS]]

By the way, you can add some extra hardware to the STE/Falcon's analog controller ports that transforms one port into a 3 port standard ATARI plug joystick port. So in total you can hook up 8 Joysticks. The only game that supports this so far ( i think ) is Dynabusters+ by tSCc  http://www.tscc.de/softogr.html It's great fun... But i don't know at the moment where to get the schematics for this nice little "interface"

 

I think they are talking about that ( Centronics-Joysticks on the doc )

 

                    PIN CORRISPONDENCE FOR THE 4-JOY ADAPTER



                      Printer Port        Joystick 3

                      ---------------     ----------

                             1                6

                             2                1

                             3                2

                             4                3

                             5                4

                            25                8



                      Printer Port        Joystick 4

                      ---------------     ----------

                             6                1

                             7                2

                             8                3

                             9                4

                            11                6

                            26                8





These are the wirings of the adapter I've bought. The adapter works with

Leathernecks e Gauntlet II. I haven't tried with the originals but...

If you find a different (maybe better working) wiring please mail me.

[Ayreon]

Nah i wasn't talking about the printerport thing. I was wrong though.. with the adapter i was talking about you can connect 2 normal joysticks to the Enhanced joystickports.

After a bit of browsing on google i found this nice FAQ http://www.gamesx.com/controldata/ejp_faq.htm Wich contains "everything" about the enhanced joystickports.

 

I'll break some copyrightrules and cut and paste the convertor info here

 

5.3 Joystick -> EJP adaptor circuit diagram

===============================================

 

Get five friends, six joysticks, two adaptors, a copy of Dynablasters

and HAVE FUN!!! If you don't have that many joysticks, but do have a

joypad, bear in mind that you can use the "Padaptor" described above -

or even incorporate it into this design.

 

 

15 pin high density 9 pin D plug

D plug (joystick 1)

 

1 O------------------------------O 1 UP

2 O------------------------------O 2 DOWN

3 O------------------------------O 3 LEFT

4 O------------------------------O 4 RIGHT

6 O------------------------------O 6 FIRE

9 O----------------*-------------O 8 GROUND

|

|

| 9 pin D plug

| (joystick 2)

|

+-------------O 8 GROUND

10 O------------------------------O 6 FIRE

11 O------------------------------O 1 UP

12 O------------------------------O 2 DOWN

13 O------------------------------O 3 LEFT

14 O------------------------------O 4 RIGHT

 

 

hmm this board doesn't really allow pasting things with a lot of empty spaces. But you get the idea and can look in the FAQ for the flawless "drawing"