Posted by The Maverick on 16, 2001 at 12:42 PM:
In Reply to: Mine will ignore the diagonals...just wait and see... posted by Mr Arcade on 16, 2001 at 8:57 AM:
: But my design will be a true 4-way switchable to a true 8-way via a single switch.
One way this might be doable is to mount four switches at the diagonal positions of a 4-way joystick (so long as you could convince the software to give them priority over the forward, back, left, right switches.)
A toggle switch could then be used to make or break the ground for the 8-way switches (or, if you break the ground for the "regular" switches, you would have a Q-Bert stick.)
the Mav