more on TV games - promises, promises …

6-26 — elektor june 1980 more on TV games 0132 promises, promises . First, the joysticks. Readers" reactions and data were highly varied, to say the least. Unfortunately, there was one misprint in the "test program" given (Table 17 in the November issue): at address 097A, the instruction should read 0E427B instead of 0E4278. Until this is corrected, the text on the screen will be nonsense. However, a sufficient number of readers discovered this (or worked out their own alternative program), so that we received a large amount of "joystick data". And widely varied it is, too . . • • Horizontal movement = flag off; vertical = flag on. Low data value = left or up; high value = right or down. more on TV games In earlier articles ("I played TV games", Elektor October and November 1979) we asked for our readers experiences with the joysticks — and promised to come back on the subject when we had enough data. We received several interesting reactions to this request, often includi...