Joystick support

[mattgodbolt]

[richard-broadhurst]

If possible, two joystick support would be good, but even if only one is possible, supporting both fire buttons would be good.

[richard-broadhurst]

Looks like browsers now have good joystick support https://gamepad-tester.com/ although it looks like it might only be xinput drivers on windows.

[murkle]

There's already some undocumented syntax for this in https://github.com/mattgodbolt/jsbeeb/blob/master/main.js

                } else if (key.indexOf("GP.") === 0) {
                    // gamepad mapping
                    // eg ?GP.FIRE2=RETURN
                    var gamepadKey = key.substring(3).toUpperCase(); // remove GP. prefix
                    gamepad.remap(gamepadKey, val.toUpperCase());
                } else {
                    switch (key) {
                        case "LEFT":
                        case "RIGHT":
                        case "UP":
                        case "DOWN":
                        case "FIRE":
                            gamepad.remap(key, val.toUpperCase());
                            break;

Maybe you can test if this still works :)

[mattgodbolt]

Another request over email (for BBC Joystick emulation to a PC joypad).

[murkle]

I just tested on iPad 6 with XBox One controller (need to be careful to get the right model, must be Bluetooth 1708) and my old gamepad code still seems to be working 🎉

Apple actually support this officially! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210414c

https://www.macworld.com/article/3410800/how-to-pair-an-xbox-one-controller-with-iphone-or-ipad.html

[mattgodbolt]

That's amazing! Thanks Michael!

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:08 AM Michael Borcherds [email protected] wrote:

I just tested on iPad 6 with XBox One controller (need to be careful to get the right model, must be Bluetooth 1708) and my old gamepad code still seems to be working 🎉

Apple actually support this officially! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210414c

https://www.macworld.com/article/3410800/how-to-pair-an-xbox-one-controller-with-iphone-or-ipad.html

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[murkle]

Looks like I added support for buttons only, not for the ADC joystick itself

Martin B has made a nice SSD so at least we can test it easily once it's implemented :) https://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=https://test.geogebra.org/~mike/jsbeeb/JoystickTest.ssd

[murkle]

https://github.com/mattgodbolt/jsbeeb/blob/master/adc.js

[murkle]

@mattgodbolt https://github.com/murkle/jsbeeb/commit/a0816a1295c2afc721d3443a68ff25b0accd0614 https://github.com/murkle/jsbeeb/commit/0d048c6d81f7db92f6bb5e069fd40f5a49067ee6

Seems to work 😇 https://test.geogebra.org/~mike/jsBeebJoysticks/?autoboot&&disc1=sth%3AAcornsoft%2FSnapper-v2.zip#

[murkle]

All good now https://test.geogebra.org/~mike/jsBeebJoysticks/?autorun&loadBasic=https://test.geogebra.org/~mike/jsbeeb/joystickTest.bbc

If we change the "fire" button to A then we should also disable the default mapping of A as <Return>

            // often <Return> = "Fire"
            this.gamepadMapping[0] = BBC.RETURN;