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Robotron - sticky joystick signal?

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SirPeale:

Holy thread-from-the-dead, Batman!

Sounds like some kind of buffer issue.  EG When you hold down a key those keystrokes are being caught in a buffer and it keeps on going.  Test it in Notepad or similar to see if this is happening.

When this happens, if you let off and don't go another direction, does it eventually stop?

arzoo:


--- Quote from: Peale on August 20, 2008, 09:03:16 am ---Holy thread-from-the-dead, Batman!

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Tell me about it! I haven't played Robotron for a LONG time and I just got back into it.


--- Quote ---Sounds like some kind of buffer issue.  EG When you hold down a key those keystrokes are being caught in a buffer and it keeps on going.  Test it in Notepad or similar to see if this is happening.

When this happens, if you let off and don't go another direction, does it eventually stop?

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It does eventually stop. But this makes no sense since the u360 is not wired into any encoder - it's detected as a joystick (digitally restricted for 8-way operation). Also, the stick continues to operate correctly even when the problem occurs - so if I let the stick center, the Robotron dude moves left (it's always left), but if I move the stick in any other direction the dude moves in that direction, until I let it center again and then it's back to moving left. If I let the guy continue moving left it will eventually stop - but usually you die first. So this would imply that the joystick is not centering correctly - but back when I first started this thread 2 years ago, I was using a Super 8-way (wired to my I-Pac), and it had the same problem. Bizzare!


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