[Coco] Nitros9 Xpad driver

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 25 April 2009, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 4/25/2009 12:27:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

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>gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:

>>I don't recall if there is one or not Roy.  I have one of  those, and it

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>uses

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>>at least as much I/O as a serial port.  However,  if space for that can be

>>found in the coco3's limited I/O space, the  driver itself should be

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>fairly

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>>easy, just put the read data into the  already designated mouse packet.  I

>>believe it can also do mouse  clicks but its been 20 years since I played

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>with

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>>mine so that may be in  error.  Very faint, probably moldy memory tells me

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>its

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>>resolution  needed another 1 or 2 bits of width both ways to reach what

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>the

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>>coco3's  gfx can do.  That makes the data, for h position more than byte

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>wide,

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>>and that may be why I got sidetracked and quit fooling with  it.

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>>--

>>Cheers, Gene

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>Thanks Gene,  I can write both the driver and descriptor if

>I have to I just didn't want to reinvent the wheel if some one else

>had already done it.

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>The resolution is 8bit but that can be worked around for the higher

>screen modes of the coco3.

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>and yes it uses 12 volts.

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>Well looks like time to get back into Nitros9 and refamiliarize

>myself with writing assembly for it.    It will be a nice  break

>from all the work I have been doing with converter production.

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>Roy


Yes. :)  I would have thought that would be terminally boring by now.  How 
many have you shipped?, if I can be so rude, as that will give us a fraction 
of the active users yet I'd think.

-- 
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