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31.Dd January 7, 1996
32.Dt JOY 4
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm joy
36.Nd games adapter driver
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Cd "joy0 at isa? port 0x201"
39.Cd "joy* at isapnp?"
40.Cd "joy* at ofisa?"
41.Cd "joy* at pci?"
42.Cd "joy* at pnpbios? index ?"
43.Cd "joy* at eso?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45This driver provides access to the games adapter.  The lower bit in the
46minor device number selects the joystick: 0 is the first joystick and
471 is the second.
48.Pp
49The game control adapter allows up to two joysticks to be attached to
50the system.  The adapter plus the driver convert the present resistive
51value to a relative joystick position.  On receipt of an output signal,
52four timing circuits are started.  By determining the time required for
53the circuit to time-out (a function of the resistance), the paddle
54position can be determined.  The adapter could be used as a general
55purpose I/O card with four analog (resistive) inputs plus four digital
56input points.
57.Pp
58Applications may call
59.Xr ioctl 2
60on a game adapter driver file descriptor
61to set and get the offsets of the two potentiometers and the maximum
62time-out value for the circuit.  The
63.Xr ioctl 2
64commands are listed in
65.Pa Aq machine/joystick.h
66and currently are:
67.Pp
68.Bl -tag -width JOY_GET_X_OFFSET -compact
69.It JOY_SETTIMEOUT
70Sets the maximum time-out for the adapter.
71.It JOY_GETTIMEOUT
72Returns the current maximum time-out.
73.It JOY_SET_X_OFFSET
74Sets an offset on X value.
75.It JOY_GET_X_OFFSET
76Returns the current X offset.
77.It JOY_SET_Y_OFFSET
78Sets an offset on Y value.
79.It JOY_GET_Y_OFFSET
80Returns the current Y offset.
81.El
82.Pp
83All this commands take an integer parameter.
84.Pp
85.Xr read 2
86on the file descriptor returns a
87.Fa joystick
88structure:
89.Bd -literal -offset indent
90struct joystick {
91	int x;
92	int y;
93	int b1;
94	int b2;
95};
96.Ed
97.Pp
98The fields have the following functions:
99.Bl -tag -width xxx
100.It Fa x
101current X coordinate of the joystick (or position of paddle 1)
102.It Fa y
103current Y coordinate of the joystick (or position of paddle 2)
104.It Fa b1
105current state of button 1
106.It Fa b2
107current state of button 2
108.El
109.Pp
110The b1 and b2 fields in struct joystick are set to 1 if the
111corresponding button is down, 0 otherwise.
112.Pp
113The x and y coordinates are supposed to be between 0 and 255 for a
114good joystick and a good adapter.  Unfortunately, because of the
115hardware hack that is used to measure the position (by measuring the
116time needed to discharge an RC circuit made from the joystick's
117potentiometer and a capacitor on the adapter), calibration
118is needed to determine exactly what values are returned for a specific
119joystick/adapter combination.  Incorrect hardware can yield negative or
120> 255 values.
121.Pp
122A typical calibration procedure uses the values returned at lower
123left, center and upper right positions of the joystick to compute the
124relative position.
125.Pp
126This calibration is not part of the driver.
127.Sh FILES
128.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
129.It Pa /dev/joy0
130first joystick
131.It Pa /dev/joy1
132second joystick
133.El
134.Sh SEE ALSO
135.Xr eso 4 ,
136.Xr isa 4 ,
137.Xr isapnp 4 ,
138.Xr ofisa 4 ,
139.Xr pci 4 ,
140.Xr pnpbios 4
141.Sh AUTHORS
142Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote the
143.Fx
144driver.  Matthieu Herrb ported it to
145.Nx
146and wrote this manual page.
147