Kempston Plus
ZXNet echo conference «hardware.zx»
From Pavel Fedin → To All 19 February 2007
Hello NovaStorm
What if we develop a combined joystick+mouse controller?
The basic idea is as follows: we have a Kempston joystick port. Bits 5-7
unused. What if you make a controller sitting between the joystick from
Shogi (Dendy/SNES/whatever) and broadcasting the click of any functional
buttons on it into the combination of bit4 + button number (0 - 7) in bits 5-7.
What does this give? This gives full compatibility with games that do not support
this extension (any button works like "fire") plus the ability
use up to 8 buttons in games that support this.
Why plus a mouse? Yes, because the task is simple enough to load
The controller is also a mouse.
This extension corresponds to the ideology of "What Is Speccy" (tm) :p