Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxf!cuda From: cuda@ihuxf.UUCP (Mike Nelson) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: clock vs joystick Message-ID: <2463@ihuxf.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 08:23:10 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2463 Posted: Tue Nov 6 08:23:10 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Nov-84 08:12:03 EST References: <445@sdcsvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 13 It slows things down because the joystick ports are polled by the same hardware as the keyboard is. Some of the joystick positions map to keys. The effect of pulling the joystick in port one all the way to the left is the same as holding down the CTRL key during a listing. As far as I remember they are electricly identical. Happy Hunting Mike Nelson AT&T Bell Labs ihuxf!cuda