Posted by Tom61 on 2, 2000 at 11:18 PM:
In Reply to: great minds think alike...(read) posted by flip on 2, 2000 at 9:42 PM:
A printer selector (the kind with the round dial to select, not the automatic ones) are just rotary switches, in centronics there are 36 (I thought they were 50, but I guess not) of them stacked one a top the other(err.. I mean stacked sideways).
: : I believe I am doing the same thing as flip. I have a Happ Super-8 in a Radio Shack project box with 8 buttons (6 push buttons - Street Fighter style and 2 for start and coin). I chopped a 25' DB25 male-to-male cable in half. I wired 24 of the 25 wires to the microswitches (pin 1 = Joy UP (hot), pin 2 = Joy UP (GND), etc.)
: : Now I can create what I call "modules." Any system that I want to connect to has it's own module. Inside the PC's would be a keyboard hack, inside the Dreamcast a hacked Quantum Fighter Pad, and so on. I solder the connections from the hacks to a female DB25 with solder cups, then all I have to do is connect the joysticks cable to the module and life is good!
: : As soon as I get some time I will have a webpage with pics and a write up of the project.
: : -Nefarious
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: yep thats quite similar to my goal.. (except i won't be starting till end of year when i get my self a new super pc)
: the idea is that the system could be expanded to..
: picture this... a nice big arcade cabinet near the front there is a little 4 way switch which selects between psx/pc/dc/etc (of course there'd have to be a way of sliding the consoles out to change games..) now you could slide the controls out an unplug them (while off) and slap in a new panel..and anothere switch that reroutes all the pc cables out side the cabinet and into your desk where you can play un-arcade games on it...
: (and no i'm not going this far with my one just arcade controls for my pc that i can cart into the louge for psx
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: btw i'll think i'll go with centronics 36-pin for the joystick to adapter cabling...
: also those anyone know how exactly most commericial manual switchboxes work, as there are so many possibilties. more importantly are most of them easy to get into and hack around...
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