[PIC] Joystick

Hi Peter,..

On Sun, 21 May 2000 19:21:49 GMT, ppu...@damnspam.chello.nl (Peter
Punk) wrote:

>I enjoyed breaking the QuickJoy. Not!
>I never liked having a joystick that broke after only 1 game of Decathlon,

To play these games (Summer Games / Winter Games / Decathlon / etc.) I
bought some other cheaper QuickJoys (AFAIK 5)... ;o)

>(')
>An orange

Obascii:
(.)
One boobie... Sorry... ;o)
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On Sun, 21 May 2000 19:21:49 GMT, ppu...@damnspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk)
posted:
>
>I enjoyed breaking the QuickJoy. Not!
>I never liked having a joystick that broke after only 1 game of Decathlon,
>that's why i bought a _real_ joystick. The Arcade! The simple but sturdy
>1-button joystick that fit real nice in the palm of your hand, you the thumb of
>the hand with which you held the joystick to fire and with the other hand you
>controlled the direction.
>I played for 4 years with the same joystick almost every day, right until i sold
>the whole kitten-kaboodle and bought myself a 286 :-)
>For all i know, the joystick still works.
>

I have five Competition Pro joysticks bought at various times during my C64
and Amiga ownership:

               _--_
             .'    '.
             |      |
             |      |
              '.  .'
               |""|
               |  |
               |  |
               |  |
             |""""""|
             |      |
       ___.""""""""""""._.----._
      /                   """"  \
     /_ __ __ __ ____ __ __ ___  ;
     \                           ;
      \_________________________/  mga

When I got my 286 I kept my Amiga :) but my C64s have since bitten the dust.

Kind Regards,
-Martin
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On Tue, 23 May 2000 14:08:47 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
provoked the following text:

>>I enjoyed breaking the QuickJoy. Not!
>>I never liked having a joystick that broke after only 1 game of Decathlon,
>>that's why i bought a _real_ joystick. The Arcade! The simple but sturdy
>>1-button joystick that fit real nice in the palm of your hand, you used the thumb of
>>the hand with which you held the joystick to fire and with the other hand you
>>controlled the direction.
>>I played for 4 years with the same joystick almost every day, right until i sold
>>the whole kitten-kaboodle and bought myself a 286 :-)
>>For all i know, the joystick still works.
>I have five Competition Pro joysticks bought at various times during my C64
>and Amiga ownership:
>               _--_
>             .'    '.
>             |      |
>             |      |
>              '.  .'
>               |""|
>               |  |
>               |  |
>               |  |
>             |""""""|
>             |      |     
>       ___.""""""""""""._.----._
>      /                   """"  \
>     /_ __ __ __ ____ __ __ ___  ;-_
>     \                           ;|||----
>      \_________________________/  mga

Yup, that's the type i was talking about! I added a hint of the cord though...

>When I got my 286 I kept my Amiga :) but my C64s have since bitten the dust.

It's a shame really, the C=64 was a great machine. A standard C=64 ran at 0.96
Mhz, but i had an expantion card enabeling it to run at 8 MHz. (there was also a
20 MHz expansion card available from CMD inc.).
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On Mon, 22 May 2000 18:42:48 GMT, mar...@gmx.de (Marco Kirschke)
provoked the following text:

>>I enjoyed breaking the QuickJoy. Not!
>>I never liked having a joystick that broke after only 1 game of Decathlon,
>To play these games (Summer Games / Winter Games / Decathlon / etc.) I
>bought some other cheaper QuickJoys (AFAIK 5)... ;o)

So you played those games only 5 times? (1 game was the average time a QuickJoy
lived anyway).

>>(')
>>An orange
>Obascii:
>(.)
>One boobie... Sorry... ;o)

SHAME ON YOU!!!!
(for being too lazy to draw the other boob :-))

ObASCII:

(_Y_) 

A complete ass
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Hi Peter,..

On Tue, 23 May 2000 15:34:43 GMT, ppu...@damnspam.chello.nl (Peter
Punk) wrote:

>So you played those games only 5 times? (1 game was the average time a QuickJoy
>lived anyway).

Nah... I think u all folks can't handle carefully with your
"joysticks"... ;o)

>SHAME ON YOU!!!!
>(for being too lazy to draw the other boob :-))

*LOL*

>ObASCII:
   _
  (')
> |"| 
>(_Y_) 

(um... a "joystick" *SCNR*) >;o)))
   
Obascii:
 *.'*   a magician...
 '.*.   ... disapaered... ;o)

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Hi	
that were been good times.
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On Tue, 23 May 2000 19:36:13 GMT, mar...@gmx.de (Marco Kirschke)
provoked the following text:

>>So you played those games only 5 times? (1 game was the average time a QuickJoy
>>lived anyway).
>Nah... I think u all folks can't handle carefully with your
>"joysticks"... ;o)

The only joystick that's supposed to be handeled carefully is the one you're
born with (if you're male) :-)

>>ObASCII:
>   _
>  (')
>> |"| 
>>(_Y_) 
>
>(um... a "joystick" *SCNR*) >;o)))

Handle with care :-))
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On Wed, 24 May 2000 17:45:43 +0100, Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> provoked the
following text:

>: It's a shame really, the C=64 was a great machine.
>Nah, give me a BBC Micro any day :)

I still have one upstairs with 512K RAM, a 80186 dauchterboard (for MS-DOS
emulation), a floppy drive and... ermmm... nothing else.

>(Now to search round for some pics so I can draw it...)

Just draw a rectangle, put in some hashes and you're done :-))
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On Wed, 24 May 2000 18:42:43 +0100, Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> posted:
>On Today, Ben Norwood wrote:
>
>: Nah, give me a BBC Micro any day :)
>: 
>: (Now to search round for some pics so I can draw it...)
>
>
From http://www.cybervillage.co.uk/acorn/emulation/bbc/
>
>The Acorn BBC Micro came into being when Acorn won the contract from the
>BBC to produce a home computer that the BBC could use to promote
>technology and computing at home, school and in the work place. Acorn
>won this contract, mainly on the strength of their first Acorn Atom
>computer which had been fairly successful. The BBC models A and B were
>very successful with hundreds of British schools adopting them for what
>were to become classics, such as Granny's Garden, or Pod.

Granny's Garden! *humms theme tune, mimicking the bleepy speaker found in a
beeb micro*

We used to play that when I was ... I dunno... 7 years old or something at
school... hehe.

I never did complete it. Damn that witch!

Kind Regards,
-Martin
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