Posted by Munich on 21, 2001 at 1:19 PM:
In Reply to: I've been thinking about this... posted by RoarCade on 21, 2001 at 1:13 PM:
Well, since the 49 ways that the joystick can be positioned are in the form of a 7x7 grid, couldn't a circuit be developed that would assign an 8 way "position" to each square of the 49-way grid so that it could talk to MAME?
: How is this grid of photocells interpreted by the end-system? The reason I'm asking is that maybe a rotary/optical kind of interface similar to a mouse controller via the PS/2 or serial port might be able to pull it off.
: conceivably, a mouse cursor can go in many more than 49 directions, depending on the resolution, speed and angle of the ball movement.
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: : I don't know of anybody that's ever come up with an interface for that thing. I've asked on this board and others with no replies. It uses a grid of photocells to sort of emulate an analog response, so a mechanincal interface would be tricky, and MAME software support will be very unlikely as well. If anybody does come up with a solution, please post it - I'd love to know!