{"id":997,"date":"2019-05-31T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=997"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:29:10","slug":"quickshot-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Quickshot II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few days ago I bought a Quickshot II joystick for my C64 from eBay. Today it arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew it wasn&#8217;t going to be fully working, as advertised, because when I opened the box, two triangular pieces of metal were found loose. (One fell on the floor and I  took a while to  realise).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/button.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-998\" width=\"306\" height=\"274\"\/><figcaption>Part of a button<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure enough, when I tested the joystick, neither fire button worked. I had one of these at hand and attempted to refit it. First time it was like the button was continually pressed. I realised I had seated this piece wrong, fixed my mistake and tried again. That worked and I had one working button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I noticed the second piece. A bit more screwdriver and fiddling later and&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/button2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-999\"\/><figcaption>Both buttons fixed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/button3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1000\"\/><figcaption>Mini PCBs back in place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3456\" height=\"4608\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/quickshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1002\"\/><figcaption>Joystick reassembled!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;now I have a fully working joystick! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did leave positive feedback but sent the seller a message telling him that a less technical person may have not been able to repair this and returned it as not working. I don&#8217;t give up that easily \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I bought a Quickshot II joystick for my C64 from eBay. Today it arrived. I knew it wasn&#8217;t going to be fully working, as advertised, because when I opened the box, two triangular pieces of metal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=997\">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-997","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\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}