[Coco] Atari 2600 joystick adapter for the CoCo?

[J.P. Samson]

On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Erik Ames wrote:
> I was going through old some issues of Rainbow and noticed several  
> vendors had the Atari 2600 adapters for the CoCo. By chance does  
> anyone have an extra one or know how to build one? I think one of  
> the magazines also had a how to guide.  I am not too techy to follow  
> schematics :(. I also heard that someone modified an original  
> Nintendo controller to work on the Tandy. That would be a great  
> thing to have!

Bob Emery has a schematic on his website on how to build just such an  
adapter.  It looks like a nice beginner hardware project:
http://www.geocities.com/theother_bob/coco_page/Atari2cc.jpg

-- JP