2 button joystick ?

[+Mr Robot]

P.S. Star Raiders ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Magic Knight]

I remember someone patching Dropzone so you can play it with the two buttons on the Atari 7800 joystick.

Regular control using space bar for smart bombs is odd.

Is there a link to a 2 or 3 button dropzone mod anywhere?

[+Mr Robot]

Boards turned up from OSHPark but a manufacturing problem meant they didn't silkscreen them. They have already emailed to apologise and say they are reprinting so I'll have 6 of these boards (3 without silks)! They look pretty good but I've not had time to test one yet.

 

 

[Zonie]

You know, that's funny. I had some show up w/o ss from PCB express. Wonder if they use the same house.

[_The Doctor__]

makes you wonder if you find the house if we can cut out the middle men...

[ascrnet]

Boards turned up from OSHPark but a manufacturing problem meant they didn't silkscreen them. They have already emailed to apologise and say they are reprinting so I'll have 6 of these boards (3 without silks)! They look pretty good but I've not had time to test one yet.

 

 

the plates are beautiful, I would mark with a white pencil to make tests jajaajajaj

 

I am working on more adapted games, I hope to have some of those that propose here soon

 

regards

[TheMontezuma]

I am working on more adapted games, I hope to have some of those that propose here soon

 

How do you check (in the code) that the second (or the third button) is pressed?

[+Mr Robot]

In BASIC

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/278884-2-button-joystick/?do=findComment&comment=4029882

[TheMontezuma]

I asked, because, I used different resistors (4k7) to reduce the current flow and the games patched by ascrnet still work well.

I printed the paddle values in BASIC and what I get is:
3 - idle

228 - button pressed

 

In BASIC

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/278884-2-button-joystick/?do=findComment&comment=4029882

Edited February 24, 2019 by TheMontezuma

[TheMontezuma]

By the way, I can recommend the following cable:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Controller-Verlängerungskabel-für-Sega-Megadrive-Genesis-Amiga-Atari-Commodore/153252978262

 

All 9 wires are present, so you can easily build your own joystick with 3 fire buttons and still be able to connect it to the XE series.

Edited February 24, 2019 by TheMontezuma

[ascrnet]

 

How do you check (in the code) that the second (or the third button) is pressed?

 

asking if PADDL0 or PADDL1 is equal to 228, check the example https://github.com/ascrnet/TestJoy2B/blob/master/TestJ2b.asm

 

regards

[TheMontezuma]

Nice

 

Looking forward for new patched games

[ascrnet]

Hi All,

 

add 3 more games :

• Raid Over Moscow
• Gigablast
• Star Maze

this was a contribution from a friend who supports the project.

regards

[+Mr Robot]

Still waiting on my corrected boards from OSHPark and cases from Aliexpress

[+Mr Robot]

It's my birthday. My wife got me a decent soldering iron and OSHPark delivered the boards. Perfect!

 

 

[+Stephen]

I absolutely LOVE the look of purple solder mask and gold plating!

[+Mr Robot]

One thing has become clear, putting the dsub on the end was a mistake, the board sticks straight into any enclosure you may want to use almost certainly getting in the way.

 

UDLRF + SANWA + Flippers all work OK.

 

I need to write a tester to check everything else.

 

Note: You will only need the SANWA plug or the UDLR plugs, you wont need both.

 

Something like this https://ebay.us/G6JmHL will be pretty much plug and play for the stick and all the buttons.

 

 

 

[+Mr Robot]

Anybody got any idea how to read the driving controller in basic?

[MrFish]

This will test driving controllers -- and a bunch of other such devices.

 

Peripheral Test.xex

Edited March 8, 2019 by MrFish

[+Mr Robot]

Thank you!

[+Mr Robot]

Updated version 2 ordered today.

 

 

[Mathy]

Hello Mr. Robot

 

100 A=STICK(0)-11

110 B1=(A/2>1)

120 B0=(A-(2*B1)>1)

130 ? B0,B1

140 GOTO 100

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

[ascrnet]

RenderedImage.jpg

 

The pcb is very beautiful, congratulations Mr. Robot

 

Continuing with the mission, contributions continue to arrive, this time:

• Defender
• Hardball
• Last Starfighter

https://github.com/ascrnet/TestJoy2B/tree/master/games

 

regards

Edited March 9, 2019 by ascrnet

[+Mr Robot]

Arrived today, testing ASAP

[+Mr Robot]

It appears to "almost" work perfectly. I'm having an issue with the paddles, when enabled they read 0 all the way to the end of their travel and then 1...2...128

 

I don't understand why, I think it's the 1M pots I'm using, more investigation is needed.

 

All the buttons, joystick (using sanwa and UDLR connectors), the driving controller and the switches all work perfectly

 

It's really cool to see the driving controller