Channel F Hand-Controller
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| Release date: | 1976 |
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| Company: | Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation |
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| Main colours: | Black |
| System: | Channel F Channel F System II |
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| Connection: | DE9 |
| Mechanisms: | Digital button Digital joystick Paddle |
Default controller for the Fairchild Channel F and Channel F System II. On the first console they're hard-wired to the system, but for the System II they use Atari's DE9 port.
It's shaped like the stick part of a joystick, which you hold with one hand, and the top has a triangular-shaped knob that can be pulled up and pushed down (2 digital buttons), tilted like a joystick (8-way digital joystick), and twisted like a paddle controller (analogue). It's pretty clever, and covers most of the popular input types of the time.
Similar Interfaces
- Video Command - Clone for Atari VCS, Atari 400/800, VIC-20.
- Channel F Jet-Stick - Almost identical, but has a trigger button on the front.
- Nabu Games Controller - Official joystick for the Nabu Personal Computer. Very similar form, but adds a trigger button and removes the twisting an pulling/pushing up/down features.
- TS 2090 Commandstick - Similar to the Video Command joystick, but with a round, metalic top. Made for the TC2068 and TS2068.
Pistol Grip
Similar concept, but instead of the handle being a straight stick, it's modelled on a pistol grip, with the button being a trigger.
- Space Age Joystick - Atari.
- Navigator - Konix.
- Quickjoy120 - Not sure if it's by a company called Quickjoy, or a company called Junior-Stick.
