[Coco] Coco Joystick port issue.

[K. Pruitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Joystick port issue.


> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:46:10AM -0700, K. Pruitt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I try to read the left joystick port's X and Y values in Basic I get
>> nothing.  The right port works fine.
>>
>> I can play pacdude and pacdude2 with no problem with the left joystick, 
>> so
>> the X and Y do work, and under Basic09 I can read the X and Y values just
>> fine on the left joystick port.
>>
>> I've tried it in Extended Color Basic, Disk Extended Color Basic, and
>> SDC-DOS 1.2, with and without anything (including the MPI) plugged in.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what may be going on would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>
> Bad solder joint on the ground pin for the left joystick port?
> Can you read the left joystick button?
>
> John
> -- 

Yeah, the buttons work fine. The problem was, as Tim suggested, me not 
calling joystk(0) first.  So there was a loose connection involved, but it 
was between my ears.