As far as I know Warlords had potentiometers, not spinners. So that would be the same as two analog joysticks when it comes to input.
You are correct, Matsadona. Warlords used potentiometers.
Warlords also works fine in MAME with spinners, but at ~$70 each, that gets very expensive.
If you want to reduce the costs, Mark, you can:
1. Use long-life Honeywell/Clarostat RV4 series potentiometers with an analog encoder.
- A-pac or KADE miniArcade 2.0 are good encoder choices.
- U-HID Nano doesn't have enough inputs.
- U-HID would work, but is far more expensive.
- You can assign the player and admin buttons to gamepad buttons.
2. Use rotary encoders like
this one or
this one (quadrature waveform outputs) with an optical encoder. (translates quadrature waveforms into mouse movements)
- Opti-Wiz (2 ea.) or StefanBurger's
Illuminated Spinner firmware for Arduino (2 ea.) are good optical encoder choices.
- You will need to enable multimouse
- The potential difficulty with the rotary encoders linked above is mounting them -- I have a few ideas that might be helpful.
- You will also need a separate encoder for the player and admin buttons.
Scott