Tyrant

Custom PCB. NOICE! Well I figured I couldn't go on butchering them forever... and it's a fairly simple circuit. In fact, these boards are so simple in design that I'm making them on stripboard. Who needs the hassle of etching boards when all the traces are going in straight lines anyway?

Custom PCB.

Presumably that's with a switch to isolate one and engage the other?

The only question now is...how much? I've just hit a snag, and can't be 100% sure to be able to make any more exactly the same, which is really annoying, but assuming I can, they'll sell for £45 each. Hold tight, I'll keep you all posted, and I'm pleased to see there is interest.

Maybe Tyrant can make a v2 thats a foot pedal? That's the way we played with sh3-rg's one during the AC (oops, maybe, he was not aware of ) I wouldn't worry too much, those buttons (and the box, come to think of it), are really solid. The button's meant for arcade machines, so it can take a lot of punishment, can thump them hard and only hurt your hand. I'm glad it got there safely, and I'm glad you're enjoying it. Hopefully I'll have a few more for sale soon, if anyone is interested.

That link has an omission in it. The Jaguar does indeed consist of a matrix of 4x6 inputs, but the three "blanks" in their description correspond to C1, C2, and C3, which were intended to be hard-wired in the controller so that different types of controllers can be auto-detected. The only time they were really used however is in the teamtap, which outputs one of them (C1 I believe) low so that software can detect it. It also outputs a 5v voltage on pin 8 (normally not-connected) so that controllers can detect when they're connected to a teamtap, if they need to adapt their behaviour depending how they're connected.

I'd love to come, and I think this year for once I'll just about be able to afford it too! What are sleeping arrangements like over there, and how pricey are the hotels?

http://www.jagware.org/index.php?showtopic=819 Well yes, indeed. One of these days I might actually get round to finishing and selling some.

Black buttons (mine) vs grey buttons (his).

I've had trouble with some modern TV's not liking the non-standard way the Jaguar (and most older consoles) produce video. A standard TV signal is interlaced, first all the odd numbered lines are sent (1, 3, 5, etc) and then the remaining even numbered lines are sent. It's a way they could get away with only updating 25 or 30 times a second but make it look like 50 or 60. The Jaguar (and most earlier consoles) only ever outputs half the lines, then outputs the same lines again... some modern high-def TV's can't cope with that and give up. Try running one of the Jagware High-Res demos and see if that displays properly.

Well then what d'you know, there is... I too had skipped it for exactly that reason... but there's enough detail there by the looks of it to get ultra vortek working over ticipip if someone is up for it. http://www.mediafire.com/file/osyl34erv5k9d3v/07%20-%20The%20Jaguar%20Voice%20Modem.pdf

If you rebuild Qt statically linked, it'll make statically linked versions of anything it builds too, meaning no need for extra DLL's. I really wish there was a flag at compile time to make it do that, but it seems the only way is to rebuild all of Qt statically first.

A spinlock where? Waiting for bus time or waiting for PITs to fire? Also I think you mean tight loop rather than spinlock, which has a very specific meaning.

Don't forget about Ultra Vortek. I actually played that via two JagModems separated by about 5 miles back in the 1990s. Very cool experience long before Xbox Live became all the rage. Would be neat to see that game playable across the net, since it's built to work with a modem in the first place. True, but that would require reverse engineering the protocol it uses to talk to the voice modem... I'm guessing it's just serial though, with the modem doing its magic on its own, so probably isn't toooo hard actually.

I_did_not_know_that! That's why many region switches also incorporate a bi-colour LED to indicate which frequency it's running at.

Given that there are only 3 networkable games (maybe more if you count the various revisions of aircars released (does the network traffic change between them? / are they compatible between versions?)) it would be entirely possible for the pc software to fake a low latency connection by caching the data transmitted, replying immediately with the last known copy, and only updating when it gets new info from the other player(s). It would be a little more work, since the games protocols would have to be reverse engineered, but I can't imagine there are that many different types of packets being sent, so it shouldn't be too hard to analyse, especially since the code can be disassembled and looked at along side the serial dumps.

The thing I think comes from your definition of "sane", which in turn relates to where libraries and headers are located, and how they can be located. On a typical linux system, they're all in /usr/local/lib (or /usr/lib) both of which are in the path, right? (been a while since I used linux, might be being forgetful, I never did any dev work under it). On a mac, they're generally installed in /Library/Frameworks and not in the path. Yes, I can. The makefile it spits out includes the following INCPATH = -I/usr/local/Qt4.6/mkspecs/macx-g++ -I. -I/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/usr/include/QtCore -I/Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/usr/include/QtGui -I/Library/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/usr/include/QtOpenGL -I/usr/include -I/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Headers -I/System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Headers -I../../obj -F/Library/Frameworks LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -F/Library/Frameworks -L/Library/Frameworks -framework QtOpenGL -framework QtGui -framework QtCore -framework OpenGL -framework AGL If I then try to build just the Qt parts (starting in src/gui and typing make) it complains that it can't find SDL (despite it being installed as both a framework and in /usr/local/lib) and aborts. There was no name calling or ire, just a little frustration late at night after being in dependancy hell for a little while. I always have this kind of trouble building linuxy apps on osx, having to manually install dependancies and do it in the configure/make/install way, rather than using the mac versions of things which come as frameworks. It gets very frustrating, and quite often doesn't work at all due to some linux only requirement that isn't supported.

ok, I give up, it won't find Qt, and I won't piss around installing it from source. I'm not 100% sure where the Qt binary packages drop stuff, I think some is in /Library/Frameworks and some in /Developer

Ok, OSX build news: it's annoying as all hell. Macs can install libraries either in the unix way (/usr/local/lib), or the mac way (/Library/Frameworks). Any pre-bundled package of them is going to come as a framework, in order to get a unix-style library installed, one has to build it from source. It is possible to fix your makefile to look for the framework installs, I think, but I haven't looked into it since I'm a bit busy and a lot lazy. I'm going to install SDL and zlib from source (despite already having both as frameworks), just please tell me Qt doesn't have to be built again from source. I've already got it installed (and used, love it) and really don't want to have to mess around with it too much. Edit: oh yes, and you have to add /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin to your path in order to find the damned things once they're in, they're not there by default on macs. Edit 2: ARRGH! Add pkg-config to the list of things needed but not there by default. This is why mac uses hate linux developers, too many assumptions about what a unix environment looks like.

Apple have always been a bit shit about keeping up with the latest versions of things. Also they've now started charging for xcode! Cheeky gits. I'd offer to build a binary but you've got a load of dependancies I would prefer not to have to track down and build. The one thing macs have never had was a good package management system (yes I know there are two of them but I don't really like either one).

Interesting. That 3-way rocker looks very interesting.

Looking good. Looking a lot like WDB, but that's good, I like WDB a lot.

I lol'd.

And also you've got the whole convex/concave button top thing. Most americans (and a lot of europeans) prefer the concave style used by Happ, but I personally prefer the convex Japanese ones by the likes of Sanwa and Semitsu.

That's fine, I've been waiting this long, a couple of weeks more isn't a problem.