Apple II joystick

Hello mjnurney,
mostly with the Apple II there were the so called "gamepaddles" sold - and they are sold now for an insane price - see the thread "this is laughable"..... real joysticks for the Apple II that were to be pluged in the gameportsocket were just much more rare.... in most cases there was an adapter (x) used that was plugged in the gameportsocket and had at the outside a DB9 shell and the cable was supplied with a plastic collar to be fixed / slided in the case.
the very common solution in those days was to make an adapter like described at:
http://www.harrowalsh.de/Elektronik/APPLEBOX/appleboxgameport.htm
and than use the Apple IIe joystick with the DB9 Plug. Alternate will be to modifiy that joystick with a 16-pin socket that is covered on top with 2K glue after the cable has been soldered to the socket (X).
(X) up till now i have not added such pictures to that page... but i will do that within the next 3 days.....
sincerely
speedyG

Are you looking for a particular brand or style of joystick? I should have 30 or 40 II+ joysticks in storage.

I normally don't do any buying or selling other than local so I really don't know postage.
The nice thing about building an adapter to use a IIe joystick is it makes plugging and unplugging the joystick easier and there's a larger variety of joysticks to choose from.

Hello mjnurney,
sorry it´s not that simple... it seems you did not follow my advice to take a look to the page mentioned above,
otherwise you would have seen the schematic with the pinouts of the used connections and the correct wiring...
the flatcable is just used with the pressplug at the side of the gameport to get clean and reliable connections....
at the other side of the plug the single wirelines must be soldered like displayed in the drawing .....
the simple thing is that you only must connect Apple Joystickplug 1 to that cable and leave away the rest if you don´t
want to extend to use that adapter for expariments too....
sincerely
speedyG

Hello Mike,
the pinouts you listed are correct..... the board is for experiments using the gameport as interface....
you can switch relais and by that you can control 220 Volt or 110 Volt devices by the software depending to the used relais and you can use microswitches or reedrelais as sensors and extermal potentiometers for distancecontrol with the experiments you learn to control robotics, build a anti-burglar-securitysystem or you can make a disco-lightorgan ... the limits are only given by your phantasy .... the contribution also contains commented code how to program and use the board....
sincerely speedyG