Thread: IFI Critique
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Re: IFI Critique
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Originally Posted by Donut
Definitely a new hook up for the joysticks, or an adapter in the kit to convert common joystick types to a gameport connection.
I assume you mean video game types, because there's no way the OI will ever support USB joysticks. Just too complex. (At least with the current stuff.)

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Originally Posted by Donut
I would like the ability to control the LED outputs from the OI while the OI's LCD display is set to userbyte. We used the userbyte to display our shooter speed on the OI, and ran into a problem that the LEDs on the OI (including the ones you wire up yourself) don't work while the OI display is in userbyte mode.
The problem with that is that the user byte is in the same data block as the first 8 LEDs. To fix this, they would have to break backwards compatibility.