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

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Antony T Curtis wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 03:03 -0500, use.reply-to.address@domn.net wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'd like to know if joystick support is being considered for inclusion into
>>qemu someday ?
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>>in the hopes to help this going forward I have done some quick research on
>>joystick interface hardware and software.
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>>here are the links I found
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>>this article alone should contain all the information needed to create a
>>joystick device in the virtual machine
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>>http://www.epanorama.net/documents/joystick/pc_joystick.html
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>I haven't read the above link yet but I have used PCs since the XT and I
>have this to say...
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>What on earth was IBM thinking when they used a 556 as a poor analogue
>to digital converter?!?
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>IIRC, the early joystick cards comprised solely of 2 74LS series logic
>chips and a 556 (dual 555) chip.
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>It was horrible. 'Nuff said.
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those chips are dirt cheap and widely available even the early 80s and 
probably a very long time before that
that way they made sure every computer had one , until the late 90s they 
were almost as common as printer and serial ports in domestic computers
it's ugly but it worked surprisingly well , at least for me

but yes , a couple ADCs would have been a lot more useful 
hobby-electronics wise , even better than the serial and parallel port !