Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Atari joystick...? Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 01:55:10 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <36102FEE.719@manc.u-net.com> References: <360FDAC2.2ABE499A@shell.jps.net> Reply-To: james@manc.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Elliott Lee wrote: > Completely unrelated to the Yaroze, but do any of you out there have > an old (but functional) Atari 2600-type joystick around? You can use any 9-pin standard joystick -- orginally the Atari console, then the CBM64, then Amiga and ST all use that same standard. Anyhoo the best (arguably) is the Competition Pro 5000 or the ZipStick which are compatible with any machine above. Or do you want the original right-handed-only Atari stick (that always broke)? You will definitely be able to buy one of these joysticks in any 2nd-hand store (being so common with the 16-bit machines), as I say I recommend going for the Comp Pro 5000 for some serious high-level Kick Off 2 matches, or some 3-player Super Sprint sessions. Jim -- ----------------------------------------- James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj -----------------------------------------