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*Arno Schaefer* wrote about *Re: Good, cheap joystick works well with
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> : There are digital sticks out also, such as the Competition Pro.
> : I had to search thru the whole city of Munich to find one. It is
> : perfect for jump-and-run, shoot-em-up and C64 emulator games.
> 
> To clarify this a bit (I reworked my old C64 competition pro to work as a
> PC joystick) - You need a bit of electronics (two transistors and a couple
> of resistors) to convert the digital signal of the joystick (on/off) to
> an analog signal. The drawback is of course that you have only one value
> in each direction (forward and not forward, no values in between).
> Very cheap PC joysticks work that way.

Yes, you are right.

But I think for most people it is easy to buy the PC version of
the Competition Pro that has this logic built in. Also, you have two
different fire buttons that can toggle different actions. Old Competi-
tion Pro's don't do this.


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