ac.tomo Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Hi, can anyone tell me if it's possible to use the old atari cx50 standard joystick on a pc/laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 http://www.legacyengineer.com/storefront/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 http://home.comcast....2600-daptor.htm http://www.atariage....er-usb-adaptor/ EDIT I've received it this morning and it works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 There's also the Genesis/SMS/Atari to USB Adapter from Raphnet Technologies. It's available as a complete interface, as a kit (assembled board actually), or a total DIY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puppetmark Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 If you have a paralle port there is LTPJOY, I have makde several of these, easy to make and it works well. The page is not in english, but it's pretty self expanitory. http://raster.infos.cz/atari/hw/lptjoy.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloopy Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 if you are handy with a soldering iron, a XBOX controller can have the dpad, and x button wired to a DB-9F and used, and the controller still works as usual, after you put a regular USB cable on it... if you need instructions, i can pull mine out and take some pics... sloopy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac.tomo Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 There's also the Genesis/SMS/Atari to USB Adapter from Raphnet Technologies. It's available as a complete interface, as a kit (assembled board actually), or a total DIY. Thankyou for all the posts i received they were very helpful, again thankyou very much for all your help. ac.tomo - i have a cx50 joystick for pc on it's way! wow, now i can play more games better than i can with any of these modern joypads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 if you are handy with a soldering iron, a XBOX controller can have the dpad, and x button wired to a DB-9F and used, and the controller still works as usual, after you put a regular USB cable on it... if you need instructions, i can pull mine out and take some pics... sloopy. yes please, I have been meaning to do this for a long time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 re puppetmark's suggestion - yes if you have an older PC with a parallel port you can use the ppjoy driver (WXP anyway) and plug in any atari joystick details here (I have the driver if required) p.s. yes sloopy re xbox controller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 re puppetmark's suggestion - yes if you have an older PC with a parallel port you can use the ppjoy driver (WXP anyway) and plug in any atari joystick details here (I have the driver if required) p.s. yes sloopy re xbox controller I stopped using Windows years ago and even then I was still hanging on with Windows 98SE. Prior to that time I had an ATAJOY interface for (application???) but the driver was a bear. Deon Van Der Westhuyse's PPJOY driver saved the day. ATAJOY's pinouts were different than another similar interface (LPTJOY?) but Deon's driver was adaptable. Apparently Deon no longer has a website but he's still maintaining PPJOY. Read about this and get the Windows 7 driver here. Read Deon's ppjoy blog here. The text of Deon's old webpage can be found on waybackmachine.org here. If you need the driver for Win 2K/9x I found it here. I wonder where my ATAJOY interface is hiding. I need to see if I can get it to work with Atari800. I had problems with the axes when I first tried but that was a few years ago. Maybe I know enough to remedy that (or not ) now. -Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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