Re: Which joystick for Spand?
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:22 am
The spand+ has only been around since 2017, the original or classic spand since 2011 from an idea first mooted by Sir Morris in 2007.msknight wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:32 pm Revival Studios games did. As the zxpand+ is a little over ten years old and seems to have gained rapid popularity, then there's a fair chance that anything written after 2011 probably might have done.
I'm not sure if there is any, "mapping emulation," which maps joystick movements to keyboard presses. If there is, then it would make it backwards compatible with everything.
The original issues 1 and 3 were different beasts to the spand+ and had breakout pads on the board for joystick use. an add on board for the AY and joystick port came later.
Re Key mapping, this taken form the spand+ manual...
"" CONFIG J=udlrf" Controls which keys are to be emulated by the joystick when using INKEY$. See notes below.
INKEY$ can be used to detect the 4 ordinal directions of an attached joystick. No diagonals are usable at this time. The default joystick codes are 6, 7, 5, 8 and 0 which map to the cursor directions."
Shown are an issue three spand and AY/joystick addon board.