[Coco] CoCo Joystick Poke?

[Rogelio Perea]

As far as I know the software that makes use of the joystick maps to the
specific hardwired joystick ports chosen at the time the software itself was
developed-written. A careful program (and programmer) would have made use of
a routine to ask the user to press the fire button of the joystick he/she
wishes to use and adjust its port reading accordingly... some programs do
this, some (the most I fear) don't so there you have your joystick swapping.

I think there were some hardware projects that allowed for a switch to
choose either of the two ports, basically a switchable "Y" cable where you
plug your lone joystick in a single jack and the two DIN connector cables
out of the "box" to the two joystick ports in the back of the CoCo, and a
switch in the Y-cable/box would allow you to flip the joystick between ports
easily.


-=[ Rogelio ]=-



On 8/4/07, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Was wondering if there is a peek or poke command in basic to swap the
> joystick ports. I have noticed when playing games some use left and some use
> right joystick ports If there was an easy way to swap ports via a poke
> command it would be helpful and save me having to swap ports with the one
> joystick I have.
>
> Thank you