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In article <DEIBs...@news.cis.umn.edu>,
   Jon <rein...@maroon.tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>What it is a gamepad like nintendo, genesis, with 6 buttons! It 
>also has a turbo switch for all 6 buttons... But the best part 
>is, it's a keyboard emulator! You press a button on the joypad, 
>then on the keyboard, and that keyboard key is assigned to the 
>gamepad! Imagine saving, loading, pausing games from a 

Yup.  I just bought it.  All in all, it works great.  (it along with myself, 
hates Keytronic Keyboard controllers)  Programming it is fairly simple.  
Although, sometimes it takes a few times to program it to get it to work.

If you power off, it still remembers your programming!  Right now, I have it 
programmed for Heretic and MK2.  The turbo, well... it works when you program 
a button to be a turbo button.

The best feature still is, it can perform as a normal 4/2 button joystick too. 
But why would you want to?  Use the keyboard emulation mode for everything 
(all games support keyboard).  I was messing with it, and when I programmed 
the buttons with Ctrl Alt Shift, I can push the button on the pad, and it will 
"Shift" any keypresses!

The Electronics work very well.  It is totally transparent to the keyboard 
(not a simple task btw) but the physical construction, leaves much to be 
desired.  Its a tad flimsy.  

bah... unscrew it, make a microswitch arcade stick and plug this baby in!

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