Hmmm, I think Tjaart was kidding us... ;)
I could not find anything about N64 at the Hw book either.
Perhaps I really getting old and blind... :)
Wagner.

Ben Stragnell wrote:
>
> Hmmm... I didn't see any N64 joystick info in the Hardware Book... maybe
> I was looking in the wrong sections (but I did try a few!).
>
> Anyway, I did a project with the N64 a while back... the 3 pins on the
> joystick are GND, Vdd and DATA. DATA is a bidirectional line. The
> signals on the DATA line are pulse-width modulated, where each bit is
> one of the following:
>
> 0111    0001
>  ___       _
> _       ___
>
> The bitrate is around 250Kbit/sec. I didn't figure out the whole
> protocol, just enough to fake the presence of a controller pak, and
> interface to a PC parallel port using a 16F84. Faking a controller is
> much easier though. The N64 sends a request, and the joystick responds
> with a 32-bit value - 8 bits each for X/Y, and 16 button bits (2
> unused).
>
> Hope this is of interest.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
> >
> > Tim Hamel wrote:
> > >
> > > In a message dated 8/10/99 9:09:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > > tjaart@CELLPT.CO.ZA writes:
> > >
> > > > There's a link to the Hardware Handbook on my page :
> > > >
> > > >  http://www.wasp.co.za/~tjaart/electroniclinks.html
> > > >
> > >
> > > Oh, of course, there's ALWAYS a middle man -- "you have to go through my
> > > page" -- <G> I'm kidding. I thank you kindly for the link Tjaart. I've bee
n
> >
> > Hey, how else am I going to get the hit rate up? ;)
> >
> > Seriously, I want to have a one-stop page for info on
> > things electronic.
> >
> > --
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