Posted by Jack Tripper on 22, 2001 at 12:29 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Low-tech solution (maybe not) posted by Tiger-Heli on 22, 2001 at 11:32 AM:
: : It may be possible to do this with the normally closed contacts on the joystick microswitches and a gang switch. For example, you could wire the NC contact from the "Up" microswitch in series with the NO "Left" microswitch.
: In this case, then If I press Left, the NO switch for left closes and the NC closed contact on the UP switch stays closed, so Left generates diagonal UP-LEFT!
: Or am I missing something! Let me know?
This was just a brainstorm that I had. I didn't draw up a schematic. What I'm really saying is that the common of the left switch shouldn't be wired to ground, but to the NC contact of up (the common contact of up would be wired to ground). So if you press left, you will still get a ground at the common contact of the left switch (through the NC contact of up) and the left switch will work normally. If you press upper-left, the NC switch will open on the up switch and prevent you from getting a ground on the left switch.
There still may be some issues, I've only done a pc gamepad hack and I think that this would work in that case.