[Atari800-users] Paddle support

[Ralph U. <in...@r-...>]

Hello Everyone,
 
I love the emulator, just one tiny little thing I would really love to have:
Use my old original paddles with the emulator....
 
So basically I can build a little hardware box that translates the pot positions to joystick inputs - I have also done this to act as a mouse, however I keep getting problems with the absolute positions of the pot and the fact that I can only send relative coordinates - I can either only use a small portion of the turns reliably or I have to recalibrate the positions by sending a bunch of left or right moves to get the position in the emulator right again.
 
So if someone could point me in the right direction how to map the paddles of the emulator to joystick input of the host machine instead of mouse movement that would be awesome.
I could easily provide  Joy3 and Joy4 from the hardware side, or - Joy1 and 2 - it is also possible to provide both paddles as 2 Axis of Joy1.................. the real hardware also either had one joystick OR 2 paddles
 
I am not a hardcore programmer but can normally make my way to adapt code. I checked the input.c but think I am missing something (a lot)
 
So anyways any hint is appreciated,
 
Ralph