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The ports were great, they exposed both input/output pins. Back in the 80s, as a kid, on my Atari 800XL I used these ports to interface to electronics and used
by keithnz 4y ago
The ports were great, they exposed both input/output pins. Back in the 80s, as a kid, on my Atari 800XL I used these ports to interface to electronics and used my computer to control real things! This significantly influenced what I wanted to do and sent me down the path of doing embedded systems / control systems. Even though these days I mainly do backend/web type things, I still do a bit of embedded programming.
The port/s details can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_joystick_port https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_joystick_port
- Findecanor 4y agoI put together another article about it on a input device wiki: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Atari_interface https://deskthority.net/wiki/Atari_interface This contains more technical info on the pinouts, the signals and how different devices and systems are incompatible. I had written it in preparation for building an adaptor for myself, and I have identified a few issues to watch out for.