Joystick calibration drifting..

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From: croe... Chris Roehrig
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 18:38

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Has anyone had problems with the joystick A/D converters drifting
substantially as the card heats up?    For instance, I first turn 
on my machine and calibrate my Gravis joystick (say with gravtest).
Leave it sit, and over the next half hour, the joystick range will
gradually be reduced by almost 50%!   You can actually watch the  
center point migrate towards the upper left corner.   Makes playing
World Circuit almost impossible.    Do I just have a really crappy  
card?

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Chris Roehrig  (croe...@cs.ubc.ca)    Small Neural Systems Group
Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada

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