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- Sirius_Joyport abstract "The Sirius Joyport was a game controller adapter for the Apple II computer designed by Keithen Hayenga and Steve Woita (who were employed by Apple at the time) and then licensed for manufacture and distribution in 1981 by Sirius Software. The device was meant to address a limitation in the built-in game control offered by the Apple II, by allowing either four Apple-compatible paddles or two Atari-style joysticks (but not both types at once) to be read by the computer simultaneously.With the Joyport, a game could support twice as many players as a standard Apple game port, but game designers had to specifically modify their code to take input from the Atari side of the Joyport. Many of them did so, and this modification is what is often seen listed in Apple II game configuration screens as the "Atari Joyport" option.The recommended Atari joysticks were switch-driven (i.e. digital), instead of the smoother-action analog sticks that were already becoming available on the Apple II. Since the Apple II hardware made no distinction between two paddles or a single analog joystick plugged into the same jack, it would have also been possible to connect and read two fully analog joysticks with the Joyport via the paddle jacks, but few (if any) two-joystick games supported this, and Sirius did not suggest it. Why not is unclear, but there may have also been a noticeable speed advantage when driving two digital rather than analog joysticks on the limited hardware of the time.".
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- Sirius_Joyport comment "The Sirius Joyport was a game controller adapter for the Apple II computer designed by Keithen Hayenga and Steve Woita (who were employed by Apple at the time) and then licensed for manufacture and distribution in 1981 by Sirius Software.".
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