Re: Latest analog joystick code

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> > Can I use my commodore joystick with linux? Only kidding.
> 
> Well, the QS-201 is a PC joystick, but *YES* you can use your commodore
> joystick with Linux. :) Actually it's supported by the gamecon.c, db9.c and
> turbografx.c. And the commodore-to-parallel adapters are easy to build.

Really :) Can you post where this info is to build this adapter. I have a
few commodore joysticks. I also have a few atari 2600 paddles and
joysticks too. He he. This is really cool.

> > On the serious
> > side are converters from SUN keyboards to parallel port avaliable or do I
> > have to build one myself? I obtained a keyboard from a old IPX workstation
> > that went into the trash. 
> 
> You'll have to build it yourself. I know of no manufacturers that would
> be producing them.

You have it on your web page so I will build one when I get the time. 
http://www.suse.cz/development/input/

By the way your stuff works great. The only difference I have noticed is
if I press ALT-F# more than once it will VT switch then print a capital
letter where its position in the alphabet is #. At a login in prompt I get
a ^[[A or ^[[B etc depending on which # VT we are one. I wonder if this is
from the console code with the new emulation or from the keyboard driver. 
Does this happen for a USB keyboard thats attached to a VT ? 

> Btw, there is one little, but annoying bug that disabling 'Extended
> terminal emulation' makes the kernel uncompilable ...

Yeah. I have left it alone waiting for Dominik to work on that. Dominik?

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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