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Joystick Interface and Audio Out for the Acorn Electron
The joystick interface is a clone of the ‘First Byte Digital Joystick Interface’ standard
- Use normal 9-pin digital joysticks / joypads that follow the Atari standard (ie most home computers of the 80s and early 90s)
- Joystick interface is a clone of the ‘First Byte Digital Joystick Interface’ and is compatible with games which natively support it such as Frak!, Hostages, Crack-Up, Rubble Trouble etc
- Works with almost all Acorn Electron games, even keyboard only games as the software includes keyboard emulation and analogue joystick emulation support
- Works with tape and disc based games
- Easy to use in your BASIC programs
- Includes an audio out connector so you can hook-up your Acorn Electron to an external amplified device (TV, speakers etc)
- Power LED
- Pass-through connector for additional expansions
Links
BOM (THT)
- 1 x 5mm LED
- 1 x 330Ω Axial Resistor - ¼ watt (LED)
- 4 x 10KΩ Axial Resistor - ¼ watt
- 1 x 74LS138 16pin DIP
- 1 x 74LS367 16pin DIP
- 1 x 74LS30 14pin DIP
- 1 x 10uF Radial Electrolytic Capacitor
- 1 x 5-pin 3.5mm Audio Jack Socket TN/T/RN/R/S
- 1 x Male DE-9 Connector - right angled
- 1 x 50pin (2x25) Edge Connector
- 2 x 16pin DIP sockets (optional)
- 1 x 14pin DIP socket (optional)