Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User

Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by kstenerud on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:13AM (#24916773)

OMG that Epyx joystick [1] in the screenshot brings it all flooding back! I hated that thing so much that I went to my local arcade parts dealer, bought a stick and buttons, built a plexiglass housing and circuit board (designed in Deluxe Paint) in the electronics lab at my high school, and cannibalized that horrible Epyx joystick for its plug. Best decision I ever made! SOTB and Turrican were so much nicer with an arcade stick. I even added toggle switches to reroute one of the buttons to "up" (since many games used up for jump).

I still have the buttons and joystick, though the home-built plexiglas housing didn't fare so well over the years.

[1] https://bytecellar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/a2000.jpg

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by teddyh on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:22AM (#24917873)

You should have bought a Wico Command Control.

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by reaperducer on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:52AM (#24920223)

Everyone loved the Wico Command Control. But to me, the Wico Boss was the best joystick ever made.

And those crazy alligator switches that Wico used made it impossible to break the way all the others using dome switches eventually would.

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