On my old 8086, I had a joystick which had toggles on the bottom that
mechanically disabled the return-to-center stuff. Unfortunately, I don't
remember the manufacturer. I do remember the joystick was basically a
little rod sticking out of a large plastic box, with two
less-than-comfortably placed square buttons, one on top, one in front. Are
those really had to find? I wouldn't really want to make one of my own...
--PBr
> -----Original Message-----
> From:Dave Bradley [SMTP:daveb@...]
> Sent:Monday, February 14, 2000 11:36 AM
> To:motm@onelist.com
> Subject:RE: [motm] Joystick Ponderings
>
> One other joystick decision you have to make:
>
> Do you want one that is self centering, or not? I have one that stays
> where
> you put it, which is very useful for lots of things like quad spatial
> panning, etc. A spring loaded return to center type would be an annoyance
> in
> this application.
>
> Probably I'd want one of each type. The good thing about the non-centering
> type is that you really don't need the 2 extra pots for offset, since you
> don't care about return to center.
>