Zonie

Don't forget stunt cycle.

welcome to the club, Now you need to start on the computers...

FWIW, magazines and similar online content is just not as desirable as it used to be. I'm not saying it is not good anymore, not all print was good either, but with so much interactive content, like this very forum, we get all the entertainment and info we need. I haven't bought a magazine subscription or at a news stand for at least a decade now.

Ahh. Yes. I figured that there was some standard they used. Thank you! This is what I was hoping for. I can probably use an Arduino. Gotcha. Thanks

FPGA's have Aerospace, military, and industrial applications. There is a bigger world out there than retro gaming... Hell, some of the PLC's out there now could probably run an emulator and have all the Digital and Analog IO right there for you, plus motion control for controller feedback...

@Ben from Plaion Any chance Atari will make the PCB in the CXStick available to buy as a part or perhaps the schematic and any code or protocol for its USB? (Not likely)?

Can you teardown the CX stick please?

Mine arrived today. Thankfully in a box, not a bag because it has been raining off and on all week which is weird for Arizona. The CXStick is hard as a brick and the ring buttons are very sensitive and easily bumped. OK, It sucks. Glad they were out of stock so I didn't buy more yet. I'm probably going to make an arcade controller using the board from a stick or maybe put a multipin connector (HD15 or perhaps something smaller) on it mapped to the buttons and positions as a hub for whatever I can come up with. I'll have to get an idea of what buttons do what in games to determine layout. So, 4 stick positions plus the 4 ring buttons and 4 Action buttons. Maybe a dual arcade stick with 4 action buttons A stick and the four on the ring in a diamond pattern with four arcade buttons If the ring button positions don't really matter, then maybe an 8-button box with a regular CX40 will do the trick. Plug the box into the CXStick, and the CX40 original into that. Perhaps hack a 10-key kepyad like this to work with a CX40 Could also hack one of the Video Touch Pad controllers Opens opportunity to then make overlays A generic overlay/mapping: The ring buttons at 2,4,6 & 8 for Up, Left, Right & Down The three across the bottom (*, 0 & #) all mapped to the front corner The unused top (1 & 3) buttons mapped to the front side buttons The usual CX40 fire button doing the usual duty And printed like the top of the CXStick with the front unfolded Game specific overlays can be made A standard mapping would probably need to be agreed upon for it to work for everyone. Using the VTP to play Star Raiders on a 400 would be ironic... A SNES controller could also be hacked to work. Seems to be the new old school standard. The Commander X16, the Chameleon (would have), SNES2Atari, etc. It's popular and you can still buy clones new. It has a joypad. Four buttons for the ring. Two action buttons for the fire button and the bottom corner. The two in the center for the two on the front. What Y'all think?

Nice work. Thanks. $45 isn't a bad price for this. Sure $15 would be great, but really not that bad. Is it possible to get a spiral bound version?

I received 3 out of 4. The last one has an Atarivox, Wizard of Wor, and 7800 Space Invaders. I saw someone got theirs Space Invaders so I'm guessing that the AtariVox may be what is holding it up. Not a big deal. I haven't even played any that I have received as I only just fished my 1702 out of storage.

Yeah, I like the little receipts that @Albert makes that are the same size as the manuals. All in all, top rate packaging. They stay with the manuals so in 20 years, we have that history.

Yeah, an SD slot OR games being loadable via the USB like The 400Mini in addition to the cart port would be ideal.

Just like Pharmaceuticals. US citizens pay exorbitant prices to fund the executive salaries and development, and the rest of the world gets them for chump change. These things are probably free in France LOL.

Thats cool. I'm using one of their DIN rail boxes for two of my automation products...

Nice. I may use that case for a Rocket Launch controller...