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- From: alan@apple.com (Alan Mimms)
- Subject: Re: Pinouts for 15-pin IBM GamePort?
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.002214.6218@gallant.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:22:14 GMT
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- In article <jeremym.727842907@sfu.ca>, jeremym@fraser.sfu.ca (Jeremy Thomas McDonald) writes:
- >
- > Does anyone have the pinouts for the IBM-compatible 15-pin GamePort?
- > What is the current rating on the +5v pin, if there is a +5v pin?
- > Thanks in advance.
- >
- > email to: jeremym@fraser.sfu.ca
- > -------------------------------
- > yes, a lowly university student
- >
-
- I am looking at a thing called "Interfacing to the IBM Personal Computer"
- (second edition -- ISBN 0-672-22722-3) which gives the following information:
-
- An OUT instruction (any data) to port 0x201 starts four one-shot timers
- whose time value is dependent on the value of four external resistors
- (presumably pots attached to a joystick). IN instructions from that
- same port show the state of the one-shots and the game port switches
- (there are four).
-
- Bit Description Pin
-
- 0 One shot output n/a
- 1 One shot output n/a
- 2 One shot output n/a
- 3 One shot output n/a
- 4 Switch #1 in 2
- 5 Switch #2 in 7
- 6 Switch #3 in 10
- 7 Switch #4 in 14
-
- The pinout is as follows
-
- Pin #1 is +5V
- Pin #2 is switch 1 (ground to turn ON, I think)
- Pin #3 is the wiper of potentiometer #1 (other end should be on +5V)
- Pin #4 is ground
- Pin #5 is ground
- Pin #6 is the wiper of potentiometer #2 (other end should be on +5V)
- Pin #7 is switch 2 (ground to turn ON, I think)
- Pin #8 is +5V
- Pin #9 is +5V
- Pin #10 is switch 3 (ground to turn ON, I think)
- Pin #11 is the wiper of potentiometer #3 (other end should be on +5V)
- Pin #12 is ground
- Pin #13 is the wiper of potentiometer #4 (other end should be on +5V)
- Pin #14 is switch 4 (ground to turn ON, I think)
- Pin #15 is +5V
-
- The potentiometers govern the (approximate) one-shot time by the formula
-
- time = 24.2 + 0.011 * (resistance)
-
- Hope this helps. By the way, this book is pretty good.
-
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