Re: U.I.M

Stephen Barriball <Stephen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"John Cartmell" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
[snip]
>> The A3010 was designed with joystick ****ts and I'm sure I remember
Acorn 
>> (or a
>> retailer) bundling joysticks with the machine at one time.
>
>Yep it used standard 9 pin joysticks like the spectrum and atari.
>
>The Serial ****t / Vertical Twist made an interface that plugs in to the 
>parallel printer ****t and provides 2 joystick ****ts.
>
>Magnetic Image also made a parallel printer ****t interface called Falcon 
>Analogue that allows you to use an analogue joystick, this is quite good
as 
>it can emulate the mouse so can be used with any game.

TBA also produced a parallel ****t joystick driver, which used a SNES
(IIRC) controller with a new plug fitted.  I still have one of these
somewhere, sans plug (which had a nasty accident)....  

I think there may have been others, too, when the market was larger.

Chris.