Zxspectrum emulator mac drivers#
The Atari joystick port was the most commonly found on the original Spectrums range of Joystick Interfaces allowing the use of the many Atari compatible joysticks such as the Quickshot, Cheetah, etcĭue to the design the USB Keyboard HID is a standard there are no required drivers as it's built-in to most modern Platforms, This interface not only allows an Atari compatible joystick to be used on our emulators but most emulators (not just spectrum emualtors - as long as they allow keyboard input). In short this interface converts an Atari joystick port to a USB redifinable keyboard Input.
So like the programable interfaaces of the time what if we could redefine the keys the Joystick uses then we could cover most games which allowed keys and then you would reprogram your interface for a differnet game. it make the Joystick act as a Keyboard such as the original Sincalir interface did, So pressing the joystick in a direction would in effect press a corrisponding key, Now just like the many original joystick interfaces this is great as long as the game has been writen with the interface in mind or matches the keys used. So we first wrote a USB HID Joystick/Joypad interface but this felt restrictive due to the fact each game then requires the input to be redirected to the emulation of the Joystick interaces we currenty do (not all games have a joystick option), We decided a much better design (cunning if you will).
Zxspectrum emulator mac code#
This would now make things a little more complicated as we would need to create a USB firmware to comunicate with the host computer and then code an interface to power and read the Joystick So we looked at creating a gamepad interface but modern game pads just dont give the that authentic feel so settled with the original Atari compatible joysticks of the day. If we add a genuine unwieldyy, clunky, mechanical joystick we can make the whole expreince more authentic and even harder to play games. !!! JOYSTICK! We were missing a joystick.
Zxspectrum emulator mac android#
So as we were testing the new Android version of the emulator we connected up a bluetooth Spectrum Keyboard it had the right feel on the keys, we had the spectrum on the TV but something was missing, Playing Jetpac and Space Raiders just didnt feel right and the kids were unimpressed (really!) :\. The Atari Programmable USB Joystick Interface the background
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