Amiga

February 15, 2025 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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