Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!rutgers!gatech!linus!mbunix!eachus From: eachus@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Robert Eachus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Joysticks Summary: Please somebody, make some more Amiga Joysticks Message-ID: <35680@linus.UUCP> Date: 1 Jul 88 21:07:31 GMT References: <890@esunix.UUCP> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: eachus@mbunix (Eachus) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Mass. Lines: 23 In article <890@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: > >On the "must have if you can find them at a garage sale" list are the >Amiga Joyboard, and the tiny Amiga joysticks. :-) I have two of these, every couple of months I disassemble clean and reassemble them so that they are once again reliable. (I have two kids, six and nine, and if these are working reliably they get lots of hard use...) There are some games that get used constantly when these are in working order, but forgotten about otherwise. (Attack and Q-Bert on the TI99A, for example) I agree with everything said about the Wico joysticks, but they are not in the same league when the action gets fast and furious. Please, please Commodore (or Amiga, or whoever has the rights) make some more of these joysticks. I think I paid around $9 originally and would gladly pay $20 now. Robert I. Eachus with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...