joysticks Atari2600 Joystick can be used in the PC

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You can use the Atari2600 joysticks, if they in the Atari2600 Plus and its connected by its USB-C cable and plugged into the PC(a USB port) and then make sure the Color Switch is on B/W, then Hold Down the Reset switch and then switch the power the on and keep holding it down for 2 to 3 seconds, then if you open Settings(on Windows) and then type `joy` in its search box it will come up with `Set up USB game controllers` and click on that and its box with come up and you see the USB Controller in there under the name `THEGamepad`
Because its one controller, both joysticks are one gamepad so you can use one for Analog Port 1 or one for Hat Port 2.
So if you wanted to, you use this with Stella on the PC...  or any other emulator.
 

That means any DB9 joystick that compatible with the Atari2600 Plus you should be able to use as well.

 

This works the same way as if you added a DB9 connector to THEC64 Joystick, its the same idea, well it was first done on the C64 DTV because no one liked its joystick and wanted to use old DB9(Atari ports) joysticks with its C64 simulator, it was the closes thing to a real C64, made by Jeri Ellsworth, that came out in 2004 so before the Atari Flashback(2005) so its the godfather of the Direct To TV devices like the Atari2600 Plus and exactly 20 years ago, they should make a special C64DTV now, 20th Anniversary Edition, well they do it with Atari all the time... .

Edited March 6 by Spanner

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This is good info. I don’t have a windows pc but I’ll have to try sometime to see if it works with Stella on Mac OS.