From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 10:57:55 PST
Quoting Eagan Rackley <eagix_at_earthlink.net>:
> I looked at taking a Turbo Duo / Turbo Grafx 16 controller (because it
> uses a mini DIN 8 port), but it turns out the easier approach would be
> just to write drivers for some PCMCIA cards that have joystick ports.
> Then a gravis gamepad or something similar should work just fine:).
Thing is that PCMCIA gameport cards are practically made of unobtanium these days.
> AFAIK there are still a few companies who have these available:). The
> only other thing I could think of would be supporting USB over PCMCIA :).
Or using a microcontroller to convert signals from the controller to the
Newton keyboard protocol, and then sending the signals over the serial port to
make the controller look like a keyboard. Custom hardware then, though.
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