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@aou your post made me think of this.

@aou [your post](https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/698668) made me think of this.

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Yeah, I never understood why rat shack went with that shit-tier two channel low bit A/D instead of just using a bunch of switches like Atari and Commodore used.

I guess it allowed for some interesting peripherals like the magic book, but other than that it was garbage.

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I didn't know the technical reasons, but it was easy to understand they were junk. :)

Especially since as you are right to point out, Atari had controllers that worked reasonably well.

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You could do some interesting things with those ports, they were usable as a bad A/D for other things like voice, light levels, etc. - anywhere you needed to input an analog signal and get a digital output but yes. They were trash.

I seem to remember a CoCo DIN to Atari 9-pin converter at some point, where you could just plug a regular joystick in.

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I seem to remember a CoCo DIN to Atari 9-pin converter at some point, where you could just plug a regular joystick in.

I would have loved to have that back then.