Amiga

The Cursed Floppy Drive Stick

/ Amiga / ESP32 / Fun

Over the past month or so, I’ve resurrected my old Amiga 1200. I added a 2Gb SD card internally and set up a serial link to my PC.

I needed software, so I downloaded an archive of 1000(ish) Fred Fish disks. Fred Fish was someone who published floppy disks with curated pieces of software and they were a gold mine. I bought a few over my years at Uni, and the one with SB-Prolog got me through my second year resits.

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No Joy Stick

Amiga

I resurrected a game I half wrote for the Amiga 35 years ago, but I’m struggling with reading the joystick in fs-uae.

  1. If I tell fs-uae to emulate the joystick with the keyboard it works fine.
  2. If I play llamatron on the emulator, it works with my shiny new joystick
  3. If I try to use my joystick with my code that works in 1. it behaves as if it is not there.

To probe this further I took the example code from the VSCode Amiga Assembly plugin and hacked it so that the value of JOY1DAT is written into the blitter so I can see some effect on screen. This works with keyboard emulation, but does not respond to the joystick.

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