26.Oct.2012
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Market survey: USB-Adapter for Commodore/Atari joysticks
Retronic Design is now offering a joystick adapter that lets you connect classic Commodore and Atari joysticks to modern computers. Retronic is located in Canada, the product is distributed through ebay.
Similar products are available from various other vendors: Amigakit (not in stock yet), Retrozone (USA) or keio.dk are offering prebuilt solutions. In Germany, retro-donald.de is offering an adapter kit, and last but not least Individual Computer's Keyrah can be used to connect joysticks to your computer - this one just simulates keystrokes though.
For hardware tinkerers who want to build their own adapter from scratch, there's a wide variety of tutorials available:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Oct. 2012, 16:23] [Comments: 0]
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