Re: C64 new joystick cables source

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:27:58 +0200
Message-ID: <20170906142758.0000547a@plea.se>
Den Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:02:42 +0200 skrev groepaz@gmx.net:
> Am Montag, 4. September 2017, 12:20:29 CEST schrieben Sie:
> > On 03/09/2017 08:15, admin@wavestarinteractive.com
> > 
> > admin@wavestarinteractive.com wrote:
> > > True provide you don't criss-cross. The outer shield of the RS-232
> > > connector should not be an issue.
> > If you are blindly trying to find the hole and have the connector
> > at an angle, then you can hit every pin at once with the corner of
> > the connector. The c64 probably won't like that.
> 
> i have accidently killed a VIC20 (well, the VIC chip) by doing that
> last week. BAAAAAH

Oh :(

Long shot but you could actually try to connect a pair of paddles set
for 0 ohms and see if the VIC chip starts to work. You could have fried
a power line somewhere within the chip and by doing this you have a
slight chance to feed the chip with power backwards from the paddle
inputs.

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