Hall effect joy support coming soon? :)

[telengard]

I was hoping to bid on the Hall Effect joystick on eBay but noticed u_rebelscum was also bidding.  Didn't want to get in the way of possible support for the joystick.   I'll be busy wiring up my Sinistar joy so I don't feel too bad.  

Do they usually go for that much?  Congrats on winning the auction u_rebelscum.

[u_rebelscum]

Thanks, I hope not they don't go that high usually.  I was just feeling the buying spirt since I missed the San Jose superauction.    And now I just read people got like three cabs for $2, plus a working one or less than I spent.  Shouldn't have slept through my alarm, dang it.  


And "adding" Hall effect support would be all hardware anyway.  They're just analog joysticks with a different type of POT.  

I'm going to play around with it and see if there's a way to hack it to PC.  I've found possibilly replacement linear hall effect sensors for less than 50 cents each, if you buy a 10,000 batch of them.  (Looks like the original ones aren't made any more, either ).

[telengard]

Thanks, I hope not they don't go that high usually.  I was just feeling the buying spirt since I missed the San Jose superauction.    And now I just read people got like three cabs for $2, plus a working one or less than I spent.  Shouldn't have slept through my alarm, dang it.  


And "adding" Hall effect support would be all hardware anyway.  They're just analog joysticks with a different type of POT.  

I'm going to play around with it and see if there's a way to hack it to PC.  I've found possibilly replacement linear hall effect sensors for less than 50 cents each, if you buy a 10,000 batch of them.  (Looks like the original ones aren't made any more, either ).

If this was the New England auction, you would have needed a Hummer to make it there given all the snow.
$2 for **3** cabs?  Wow!  

Ahh, so they are just pots.  I'm bummed because what had been sold as a Sinistar original joystick was a 2 way optical.  That was going to take up my time for the next day or so.  I read somewhere that these were the original Joust joysticks.

Off to eBay to find a real Sinistar joy...

[SirPeale]

If this was the New England auction, you would have needed a Hummer to make it there given all the snow.

If that was the New England auction, and he had made it, he would have kicked himself for days wondering why he braved certain death in the snow for a worthless auction.

[u_rebelscum]

If this was the New England auction, you would have needed a Hummer to make it there given all the snow.
$2 for **3** cabs?  Wow!  

No, the San Jose California auction that is being talked about over in everthing else.

And "adding" Hall effect support would be all hardware anyway.  They're just analog joysticks with a different type of POT.  

Ahh, so they are just pots.  

As an oversimplification, yes: POTs and Hall Effect sensors are interchangable (in most cases).

I'm bummed because what had been sold as a Sinistar original joystick was a 2 way optical.  That was going to take up my time for the next day or so.  I read somewhere that these were the original Joust joysticks.

Off to eBay to find a real Sinistar joy...

That sucks.  Good luck on getting the real thing!

[spidermonkey]

Sorry to dig up such an old thread but I was wondering if U_Rebelscum ever figured out a way to interface an Atari hall effect joystick to a pc. Any luck U-Rebel ?

[Kremmit]

There's the encoder we were talking about in the thread linked below.  It claims support for Hall-Effect.  Haven't heard that anybody's bought one yet.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41992.0

[spidermonkey]

Man, how did I miss that ? Thanks Kremmit.

[u_rebelscum]

Sorry to dig up such an old thread but I was wondering if U_Rebelscum ever figured out a way to interface an Atari hall effect joystick to a pc. Any luck U-Rebel ?

Not yet.    Somethings wrong with the circuit board, and I think the hall effect sensors were at some point replaced with hall effect switchs (aka not analog hall effect sensors).  I'm guessing because of the barely visiable numbers still on the sensors, and the ouputs I'm getting on my multimeter are switch-like.  Of course, I'm not getting good ouputs, so it could just be the circuit board (with the original or compatiable sensors) that's wrong, but it's hard for me to tell.

FWIW, I've seen pictures or drawings of 3 or 4 different revisions of the Atari Hall Effect circuit board, and the one I have is a little different than the others.  So the not matching numbers might be correct, but only on whatever version I have.  Again, that leads to a bad board, and I'm not the best at tracing.


BTW, I've bought the phaser lite, but haven't gotten it to work with my atari hall effect board (duh, see above ).  Somewhere I have some bare HE sensors I wanted to test with the phaser (and AKI), but haven't gotten around to it.   If it works, I hope to replace the old circuit board with them until I get that working.


Hmm, lets see... analog+, hall effect sensors, my cab, my CPs, what's else on my ToDo list?