From: schilkk@prism.cs.orst.edu (Rat)
Subject: TECH: Amiga & PG Help PLEASE!
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 07:30:52 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.



	Hi, all!  I'm not sure if this is the right place to send this
(I think the glovelist is gone - hence the archives on karazm.math.uh.
edu) but I'm trying to interface a Nintendo PowerGlove to my Amiga 500
(for my Computer Interfacing class).  Here's the situation - I hooked
up the PG to the 500's parallel port as required by the Alan Brand
hack of the Manfredo Atari code from karazm.

        The connections given are :

	Powerglove  ->	Amiga Parallel Port	Description
	+5v (red)	Pin 14			+5v supply
	Gnd (black)	Pin 18			Ground
	Clk (orange)	Pin 2			D0
	Latch (yellow)	Pin 3			D1
	Data (green)	Pin 4			D2

	Anyways, the glove beeps a few times upon powerup, and the
ultrasonics click for a while.  When I run the program to poll the
glove's data, the glove goes dead, and the program (glove from the
amigaglove.lzh archive) returns 9 FF's, regardless of what I do with
the glove.  My question : I saw someone post something similar a while
back - what can be done to fix the problem?  I'm assuming that that
code works, and that the interface pins are correct.  Any ideas?  The
glove sometimes stops clicking during bootup, but sometimes keeps
going until the program is run.
	
	Thanks in advance for *any* info on what's wrong...  

 -Rat
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