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Test a MultiJoyAdapter (8 joysticks)

   Author:       Chrille_7thSign
   Uploader:     7thsign gmx de
   Type:         driver/input
   Version:      0.1
   Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 1.1
   Distribution: Aminet
   Kurz:         Test Programm für den MultiJoyAdapter
   Date:         2024-03-10
   Readme:       http://aminet.net/driver/input/MultiJoyTest.readme
   Downloads:    10

http://aminet.net/driver/input/MultiJoyTest.lha

Description

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The MultiJoyAdapter has up to 8 additional ports and at least 4 additional

ports. If you want to buy this adapter, it will be soon available at

Alinea Computer https://www.amiga-shop.net/.

MultiJoyTest is an example for testing or using a MultiJoyAdapter connected

to your Amiga parallel port. The MultiJoyAdapter is based on my originally

developed 10 player adapter for our game "Gladiators" which was developed in

1995 for AGA Amigas. The code is based on code of Gladiators DebugScreen and

its code for debugging.

If there is no adapter connected, it will only print

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 on the screen.

You can exit the program with left and right mouse button.

The program opens a screen and prints the raw data of eight joysticks.

Bit 0 == 1 up is pressed

Bit 1 == 1 down is pressed

Bit 2 == 1 left is pressed

Bit 3 == 1 right is pressed

Bit 4 == 1 fire is pressed

Bit 5 == 1 fire2 is pressed (if your joystick has 2 different buttons)

Bit 6 == 1 fire3 is pressed (if your joystick has 3 different buttons)

If you want to write new games with up to 10 players with the MultiJoyAdapter,

you can copy/modify parts of the source. The source is free!

The apdapter is pretty easy to use:

Configure your CIA parallel ports with

or.b #7,$bfd200 ; output for addressing the joystick port

move.b #0,$BFE301 ; input for $BFE101

Address the port via $BFD00:

move.b #joynum, $BFD00 ; where joynum is between 0 and 7

Read the joydata via $BFE101:

move.b $bfe101,d0 ; the input of the adressed joyport

not.b d0 ; invert the input so that a logical 1 is pressed

Contents of driver/input/MultiJoyTest.lha

PERMISSION  UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP     NAME
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[generic]                  405     984  41.2% -lh5- 8396 May 16  1998 MultiJoyAdapter/src/DFont
[generic]                 3985   15411  25.9% -lh5- 3f56 Mar  9  1980 MultiJoyAdapter/src/TestMuliJoyV1.asm
[generic]                 1562    7532  20.7% -lh5- 5ccd Mar  9  1980 MultiJoyAdapter/TestMuliJoyV1
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 Total         3 files    5952   23927  24.9%            Mar 11 01:05