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Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
If you're playing on your computer, you might try something like joytokey which maps the joystick buttons to key presses.
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
(June 24, 2024 at 7:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(June 24, 2024 at 5:41 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Admittedly a 90s and not an 80s game, but my Logitech USB stick works fine with Red Baron II 3D on Steam, down to the additional buttons accepting assignable functions. It also worked fine with the original 90s CD-ROM version I had before it (CD, not the joystick) went bad. The Logitech 'stick is good.

IIRC Berserk was a two-stick game, one to aim and shoot, the other to move. Does the conversion software accommodate this?

I want to be clear, I don't need to download anything or play it on a CD rom. The games are at websites and you play them on the website while you are on the websites. But every website only gives you instructions with the keyboard, it doesn't tell you if  you can use a usb joystick. 

Like here..... 


https://www.free80sarcade.com/galaga.php

or

https://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/...ogger.html

Again, all I want to know is if a USB joystick will bypass their keyboard instructions so I can use the joystick while playing online?

In that case, use the "contact us" link for the website and ask them to provide compatibility standards. They will be the experts on what their software supports.

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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
(June 24, 2024 at 11:07 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(June 24, 2024 at 7:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I want to be clear, I don't need to download anything or play it on a CD rom. The games are at websites and you play them on the website while you are on the websites. But every website only gives you instructions with the keyboard, it doesn't tell you if  you can use a usb joystick. 

Like here..... 


https://www.free80sarcade.com/galaga.php

or

https://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/...ogger.html

Again, all I want to know is if a USB joystick will bypass their keyboard instructions so I can use the joystick while playing online?

In that case, use the "contact us"  link for the website and ask them to provide compatibility standards. They will be the experts on what their software supports.

Those are old sites, doesn't look like much action on them. 

Good news though. I bought an Retron 77 atari unit. It plays all the 2600 cartridges. I bought it with 80 used game cartriges at a game store. All the major games I wanted to work did. I now have the Atari Berzerk, not the arcade though. I also have Donkey Kong, Defender, Missile Command, Pack Man, Ms Pack Man, Frogger, and a couple of others out of that 80 I didn't know of, but space alien type shooting games, that I do like. And while the manufacture game console came with a modern joystick, the store gave me a classic real joystick from the 1980s, and that is far more durable. I am really a happy camper right now. The console with the 80 games was $325 plus tax.
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
Shit. You can get an XBOX for that price.
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(June 25, 2024 at 4:30 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Shit.  You can get an XBOX for that.
But I didn't grow up with an X Box. I don't do well with complex modern joysticks. I only do the stick, and fire. I suck at everything else. Plus I like the look and feel of the old games. Really simple to play by comparison.
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
Be careful with those old plastics... They tend to snap easily.
And enjoy!
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
(June 25, 2024 at 4:27 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(June 24, 2024 at 11:07 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: In that case, use the "contact us"  link for the website and ask them to provide compatibility standards. They will be the experts on what their software supports.

Those are old sites, doesn't look like much action on them. 

Good news though. I bought an Retron 77 atari unit. It plays all the 2600 cartridges. I bought it with 80 used game cartriges at a game store. All the major games I wanted to work did. I now have the Atari Berzerk, not the arcade though. I also have Donkey Kong, Defender, Missile Command, Pack Man, Ms Pack Man, Frogger, and a couple of others out of that 80 I didn't know of, but space alien type shooting games, that I do like. And while the manufacture game console came with a modern joystick, the store gave me a classic real joystick from the 1980s, and that is far more durable. I am really a happy camper right now. The console with the 80 games was $325 plus tax.


Sounds like you should have fun with that!  I am not a gamer but spent some time with Duck Hunt and Tetris when my son was young...that's more my speed.  He now has a setup with multiple monitors and headsets and his game room looks like some sort of bad guy control room out of a movie.

Enjoy!
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
(June 25, 2024 at 5:05 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(June 25, 2024 at 4:30 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Shit.  You can get an XBOX for that.
But I didn't grow up with an X Box. I don't do well with complex modern joysticks. I only do the stick, and fire. I suck at everything else. Plus I like the look and feel of the old games. Really simple to play by comparison.

Games (all sorts) are supposed to be fun, play what suits YOU.

Enjoy!!

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
(June 25, 2024 at 6:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(June 25, 2024 at 4:27 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Those are old sites, doesn't look like much action on them. 

Good news though. I bought an Retron 77 atari unit. It plays all the 2600 cartridges. I bought it with 80 used game cartriges at a game store. All the major games I wanted to work did. I now have the Atari Berzerk, not the arcade though. I also have Donkey Kong, Defender, Missile Command, Pack Man, Ms Pack Man, Frogger, and a couple of others out of that 80 I didn't know of, but space alien type shooting games, that I do like. And while the manufacture game console came with a modern joystick, the store gave me a classic real joystick from the 1980s, and that is far more durable. I am really a happy camper right now. The console with the 80 games was $325 plus tax.


Sounds like you should have fun with that!  I am not a gamer but spent some time with Duck Hunt and Tetris when my son was young...that's more my speed.  He now has a setup with multiple monitors and headsets and his game room looks like some sort of bad guy control room out of a movie.

Enjoy!

I remember when we got Pong in the mid-70s. Thought we were King Shit. Smile

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: Laptop usb joysticks do they work on 80s games?
(June 25, 2024 at 6:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(June 25, 2024 at 6:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Sounds like you should have fun with that!  I am not a gamer but spent some time with Duck Hunt and Tetris when my son was young...that's more my speed.  He now has a setup with multiple monitors and headsets and his game room looks like some sort of bad guy control room out of a movie.

Enjoy!

I remember when we got Pong in the mid-70s. Thought we were King Shit. Smile

Boru

For someone who was uncoordinated at everything, sports, couldn't do music. Atari had a few games that didn't make me feel like a compete loser.
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