Re: [Qemu-devel] Joystick, gameport, midi, PC speaker and better sound cards support

[Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 03:03 -0500, use.reply-to.address@domn.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if joystick support is being considered for inclusion into
> qemu someday ?
> 
> in the hopes to help this going forward I have done some quick research on
> joystick interface hardware and software.
> 
> here are the links I found
> 
> this article alone should contain all the information needed to create a
> joystick device in the virtual machine
> 
> http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_joystick.html

I haven't read the above link yet but I have used PCs since the XT and I
have this to say...

What on earth was IBM thinking when they used a 556 as a poor analogue
to digital converter?!?

IIRC, the early joystick cards comprised solely of 2 74LS series logic
chips and a 556 (dual 555) chip.

It was horrible. 'Nuff said.

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