[vcf-midatlantic] Known-good IBM joystick?

[Bill Degnan]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:49 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> If you are getting the same behavior from multiple joysticks, I'd fault
> the card or the code.
> (Unless of course these somehow aren't joysticks compatible with the
> card...)
>
> The bits talked about here I assume are part of your logic, not the
> related to the stick command.
>
> "But when I tried it on the Compaq, only two of the directions work
> correctly. It was something like left and forward; I forget exactly. One
> other direction turns on the wrong bits (1 and 4, same as its opposite
> direction, rather than 2 and 3 which it should be), even though I'm a
> million percent certain the code is right. Another direction works (bits 2
> and 4) if I move the stick to its extreme edge, but while en route it turns
> on bit 3 for a second. That makes no sense! That's why I think the stick
> might be funky or somehow misadjusted even if it does work on the Apple
> side."
>
> This sounds vaguely like the variable clobbering you had last year with
> the first lego code you were
> working on last year when you thought there was a bug in BASIC.  Can you
> post the code?
>
> Have you tried a simple test program for the joystick by itself to prove
> in fact the joystick
> is working right or not?
>
>
>
Having taught a class that included the differences in BASIC between
different systems did they provide in their code samples a comparison chart
of "if IBM do this" , "if Apple do that"?  I assume you know and found all
platform-centric code.  I may have in my slide presentation a chart with
common differences, but there are subtle little things.
b