MAC Plus Sad Face 03c510

[myequation]

Tried using a joystick (first time) on my Macintosh Plus today.  The Mac rebooted when moving the joystick position.

Now it boots to a Sad Face icon and error code 03c510.

I was reading this page but I do not understand how to decipher my error code.:

http://www.gla.ac.uk/~gwm1h/Error_Codes/Sad_Mac_Codes.html

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Bunsen]

What joystick?  I hope it's not one from a PC or literally any other computer or gaming system.  The only joysticks which will work with a Mac /edit/ pre-USB / are ones made for a Mac.  If you've somehow plugged another type of joystick into the back of your Plus, there's every chance you've fried something.

 

[myequation]

What joystick?  I hope it's not one from a PC or literally any other computer or gaming system.  The only joysticks which will work with a Mac are ones made for a Mac.  If you've somehow plugged another type of joystick into the back of your Plus, there's every chance you've fried something.

Basically this with a db-9 connector.  Certainly an Apple product made in the early 80s

I'm positive a chip(s) is fried.  Hopefully deciphering the error code can point me in the right direction.

 

[turbo]

That's the Apple Joystick II, isn't it?  IIRC this is a DB9 connector normally.  I think you're right, this isn't compatible with the Mac.

 

[Bunsen]

Edited my reply above: USB controllers are of course compatible, it's the older, proprietary ones you have to watch out for. 

As far as I remember, every Mac game controller pre-USB used the ADB port.