{"id":1104,"date":"2020-02-11T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:40:47","slug":"usb-arcade-joystick-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"USB Arcade Joystick Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week I purchased a custom USB joystick interface, and with the Amiga I had a broken Kempston style joystick (cable torn\/bitten\/cut) so this morning I did some testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It won&#8217;t be tidy (until I can find a way to pack it all in the same case) but today I&#8217;m going to build a 2 button joystick compatible with emulators such as Vice, UAE and MAME! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joy-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joy-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Parts Before Assembly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The spades supplied won&#8217;t fit the switches of the joystick, but they will fit the spades of the old joystick, so that&#8217;s a ready made adaptor \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I purchased a custom USB joystick interface, and with the Amiga I had a broken Kempston style joystick (cable torn\/bitten\/cut) so this morning I did some testing. It won&#8217;t be tidy (until I can find a way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}