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Sure hope these hardware problems aren't too common, I'd hate to see Nuon lose their share of the console market.

I actually had trouble getting to 500k, the resistor was correct, but the resistance of the other two CD4052 "off" channels was also about that magnitude, so the parallel result was more like 300k or so. My Fluke meter's resistance setting may have been biasing the 4052 slightly different than a 5200 would have though. Finally decided to just trust the 5200's calibration routine, the adapter did work.

I'm enjoyed it today and am going back tomorrow. Sure beat though, all those vids and pins wear you down. Only bummer is I don't know anyone there.

Yes, it was the 3-axis chip used for the Wii controller. Here's the page: ADXL330 The demo board was about $65 iirc. I had to buy it because the chip pads were too tiny to solder to, absolutely miniscule. It's a fun chip though, 3.3v supply and the 3 outputs read between 0 and 3.3v, 1.65v is 0G. If the part is level, the Z output is about 2.1v because of Earth's gravity. Flip it over, it reads aboutg 1.1v. Shake it up and down and the readings get more extreme. I contracted for a couple months earlier this year, never again. Was treated like a resource the whole time, the director was a chowderhead, never got a single positive comment. We called it quits on bad terms when I told them I couldn't go from first silicon to a mostly complete program (on a tester I was still learning) running on a handler in TWO WEEKS. These guys were desperate. Heard later that the first silicon didn't work and the CEO got sacked by the board.

Maybe we should compare "wasting" time with PIC stories. I joined an unpaid startup last summer where everyone but the CEO moonlighted and kept their day jobs. We were working on a tiny board that mounted up by the car's rearview mirror and captured video along with GPS, G-force, and bluetooth; then transmitted it over PCS to a database. They offered me a 10% raise, 100k shares of stock, plus the title of Staff Test Engineer (or director if I wanted management) when they got funded. Test needs were quiet, so I bought a PIC programming kit and started writing a program to capture the G-force chip readings, even ordered a demo board of the chip from Analog devices (the same chip used in the Wii controller oddly enough). Learning PIC assembly went pretty slow, but the challenge was enjoyable. The software VP didn't think much of my efforts, said "have fun, but we need someone good on the PIC, it's the most important chip on the board", but you can keep doing what you want when they're not paying you. Then he got in a big argument with the CEO and quit last December, all of a sudden, I was an official firmware developer. Not too bad for a test engineer weenie. Never got funding even though the CEO got the first units working and demoed them to a ton of venture capitalists. Should have known it was too good to be true. Paid $200-300 out of my own pocket to learn PICs and live the dream a few months.

There's a big difference between an Adventurevision and a NES toaster for example. I've seen toasters everywhere, thrifts, fleas, even found three being thrown out on city cleanup week. Weren't there about 20 million or so sold? I'd say tear into those and 4-switchers all you want. But treat a Vectrex or Intv-3 with respect.

$300 but it was for BBSB to complete my 5200 collection (not 2600). Tough decision but I'd gotten a sign-in bonus at a new job and it was the only thing in the whole world I wanted at the time.

They said that at CGE two years ago when they were demoing the Deep Pockets and Illusions carts. Keith told me to write "carts" on the newsletter signup to get on the waitlist for the first batch. Don't exactly rush things do they? I didn't attend this CGE, more into Mame cabinets and pinball machines these days. Plus Ca Extreme is two weeks away and local.

The only game that can really grab me and suck me in like the old days is River Raid. Even as a young teen though, I went through Haunted House and Adventure till there wasn't anything new to see, I couldn't love them forever.

Proper netiquette is to read the FAQ a couple times before starting to post, but welcome to AA anyway.

Whoa, this thread just gave me a "cart before the horse" flashback: USENET POST He sure got some major talent to respond.

I'm pretty sure the genny3 is only mono audio though.

Yes, a PSX or PS2 power cord would work, there's plenty of those on ebay. I was surprised at my Pany 3D0, standard AC cable, standard s-video jack. Sure wish that was more common....

Yeah, it's hard to find losers in the DC library, do avoid Kao the Kangaroo, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. I like short light-hearted games so Ooga Booga, Loony Tunes Space Race, and Wacky Races all get a spin at my house.

They really are, especially for hdmi and dvi cables which transmit digitally. That means no signal-to-noise ratio, just noise margin. If your margin is enough to pass the bits, that's all that matters. Someone on the net even found out that dirt cheap cat-5 cable works fine for hdmi, as long as you put the proper connectors at each end. When USB-1 (max 12Mb/s) came out, some dealers were selling premium cables and all their advertising made people think they needed those special cables, and if a cheap cable worked, it was probably right on the edge. Then USB-2 (max 480Mb/s) came out and the same cheap cables STILL worked. Sorry, you brought up one of my touchy subjects.

NUON TOP 10 (well 7) 1 Tempest 3K 2 Ballistic 3 Freefall 3050 AD 4 Iron Soldier 3 5 Merlin Racing 6 Next Tetris 7 Space Invaders Xl I don't think anyone can argue with this one

You could pull out the socketed ICs and then stick them back in, but it takes a hot soldering iron to get that RF shield off the board. Also you can pick up another junker INTV1 and try swapping boards. On some, the power supply board is the problem, on some it's the logic board.

I think it's pretty, well except for that emitter arrow pointing the wrong way. NPN = Not Pointing iN

THAT'S telling him, the nerve of kids these days.

The intellivision brings ground to the controller port, just not +5v. Are you sure that's the problem?

No, read my post. I said the "table" was labeled wrong, it's in the keypad section. Everything else is fine.

Or you can build an adapter module so the gun remains unaltered and still works on the SMS adapter

I've used the 4066 analog switch myself to share controllers between a 7800 and 5200, but didn't want to blow the OP away with technobabble. You need a set of those for each console too though, they're only 4-input.

The most straightforward way would be 5v double pole relays. When a console gets turned on, the internal 5v closes the relays which connects the controller lines for that system. Most old consoles are 9-pin and the ground pins can all be connected so you would need 8/2 = 4 relays for player 1, 4 for player 2.

Heh, maybe I shouldn't have responded If you connect a controller to two consoles and turn on one, the controller will carry voltage back to the off console. Let's say a standard 2600 joystick connected to a turned on 2600 and turned off intellivision. The intv logic chips that read the controller will have about 4.9v on them. And since logic chips have an ESD diode from IO to VCC, you'll be trying to turn on all the intv 5v components with 4.3v. Since the other intv supplies (12v and -5v?) are at 0v, damage could occur.