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Analog Joysticks

298 bytes added, 18:34, 1 February 2010
/* CPC+ Games with Analog Joystick Support */
''Seems to actually work a little.''
''Yet I found out that it was impossible to go to directions Down and left Right (yet up Up and right Left worked), probably due to Posible cause of failure are : ''
*''this PC analog joystick is of a slightly more recent generation (yet still using 15pin plug) and the standard in PC may have changed (Analog joysticks needed their own drivers to work on old windows PC).''
*''4 button joystick, while Amstrad supports would support only 2 is most probably the cause of failure to get all directions properlybutton (yet 2 analogue joystick as impliyed in connector pin-out).''
* ''incompatibility between PC analogue joysticks and the actually unreleased Amstrad GX4000/Plus analogue joystick standard.''
''Tests have to be done with an older 2 button PC analog joystick.''
''Tests have to be done with an older 2 button PC analog joystick, and further researchs on the matter.'' ''As while CPC era Joystick were perhaps less subject to exotic settingsettings, more modern era joystick often had to feature their own drivers on PC (Win95+ era) and as manufacturers often included more buttonsor Autofires, having to rely on non standards Pin-out setting.''
''The same case appears when you try to use a Sega Genesis/Megadrive controller on a CPC, as those have more buttons than the mundane Atari standards.''
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