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Author Topic: Stella 3.5 now works with my duel spinners on my CP  (Read 2610 times)

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Stella 3.5 now works with my duel spinners on my CP
« on: January 08, 2012, 02:45:36 pm »
Lucky me - a week after I started searching info on Stella, looking for a way to get a second spinner to work as an atari paddle, a new release comes out that allows assigning specific axis (X or Y) to any paddle (0-3). Now we're playing two player pong (Video Olympics), two player Breakout and more on my arcade setup running Stella 3.5. I forgot these old Atari 2600 games were a lot of fun.

Here's the link to the 3.5 announcement on atariage.com:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/192031-stella-35-released/page__fromsearch__1

Here's a link to the Stella download page:
http://stella.sourceforge.net/stellanews.php

Here's the link to a step by step of a pair of home brew "SpinnerMice" mouse hack spinners I whipped up as a set of paddles:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/192416-home-built-pair-of-usb-spinners-to-use-as-atari-paddles/page__fromsearch__1

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Re: Stella 3.5 now works with my duel spinners on my CP
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2012, 12:23:38 pm »
Wow that is VERY cool.  Thanks for sharing.
Would these work with Indy 500 (2 players)?  I would also kill to be able to play 4 player warlords!
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Re: Stella 3.5 now works with my duel spinners on my CP
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2012, 01:03:43 pm »
Would these work with Indy 500 (2 players)

No. The new feature in Stella currently allows assigning each axis only to a paddle - so you get 2 paddles. You cannot assign an axis to a driving control YET (Hopefully the current Dev will keep working on this - read the conversation at the end of the tutorial). In the global settings if you leave "mouse as a controller" set to AUTO, you can use these (or any spinner seen as a mouse  by the PC) for one player - just like Stella worked in previous versions.

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I would also kill to be able to play 4 player warlords!

with 4 of these (or any CP with 4 working spinners) you could play 4 player Warlords in Mame since it supports multiple mice.

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Re: Stella 3.5 now works with my duel spinners on my CP
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2012, 11:26:40 pm »
how much would you charge for a pair of these paddles i dont have time to build myself but would pay for them

thanks