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This was the first game my family got for the Tandy 1000SX after we moved away from the TI. I wanted to like it, but I was never very good at it.

That's a Futaba keyswitch. A friend of mine gifted me a TI last year that had those. My U key was stuck so he had me return it. I searched around for replacement switches and I couldn't find any at a price I was willing to pay.

So far I built two arcade sticks with 6 action buttons and a 20 key keypad that connects to the keyboard connector. I also replaced the coffee warmer with an external Meanwell PT45-A, added an internal speaker, reset and LOAD switch, "turbo" switch and crystal mod, a freeze switch and made my stackpole keyboard detached and did the alpha lock fix.

I gifted myself and my TI an MBX for my birthday last month

My original plan was to build a middle ground between the never released analog infrared controllers for the 99/4 and the painsticks we all know and "love" But then while I was looking for ideas I found this thread in the ColecoVision forum and decided I was going to make a similar arcade style stick instead. I was even going to use some brushed aluminum on the top and sides of the enclosure but that was a few too many steps above my toolset and skill level. This is also Baby's first schematics and PCBS Attached are the instructions, part list kicad files and an STL file for larger button caps. I'll never complain about unclear instructions ever again since I'm not sure I'm any better. Joystick-w-keypad.zip

@SkyPilot I ran myself and my limited budget into the ground making those two. When I get a chance to clean up my documentation I'll share the board design and parts list. The hardest part was making the cabling. I suck at crimping Dupont connectors and soldering the wires onto the VGA connectors was no picnic either.

I thought this would be a reasonably challenging first project so I did it. I should have implemented switches to switch the wiring from joystick 1 to joystick 2, but I had planned on building 2 units from the start. The only soldering on the console that was required was jumper wires from pin 2 and 7 on the joystick port.

This was the most interesting bit for me.

I seem to have killed my TIPI. I tried using it today and My TI would not boot. When I tried to reseat everything I burned my finger on part U4. My 32k sidecar and SAMS sidecar both checked out okay. I ordered another TIPI from ArcadeShopper.