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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Joystick buttons (was Re: Proline Joystick, the rest of the story)
Message-ID: <1168@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 88 07:23:46 GMT
References: <8808091604.AA03397@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> <398@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
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In article <398@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>Just out of curiosity, why didn't Atari go with a 3 button mouse? There's still
>a pin left on the connector that's not currently connected....

But there is no portbit left at the 6301 microcontroller that handles 
mouse, joystick and keyboard...

Did you ever try booting the ST with the mouse buttons held down?
Crashes the keyboard, 'cause the 6301 configures for external a ROM he
hasn't got...

hase
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