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--- Quote from: bobbyb13 on April 26, 2023, 04:43:32 am ---I was anticipating that it was that simple to accomplish but was hesitant to just cut into the harness.

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You don't need to cut the harness to swap the data lines on a Red Board, just pull the pins from the connector housing and swap them.

--- Quote from: bobbyb13 on April 26, 2023, 04:43:32 am ---I'm not sure what board is utilized here but I think the gent who made it (nice guy over at atariage, pboland ) used plain old mouse guts and 3d printed the rest. I will look closer and post what I find.

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You are right. I must have been thinking about Takeman's Major Havoc rollers here on KLOV. :dizzy:

Pboland says in this post at AtariAge that he uses the guts of an optical mouse.

Since an optical mouse doesn't use encoder wheels and optos like an old ball mouse, the data line swap trick won't work.

--- Quote from: bobbyb13 on April 26, 2023, 04:43:32 am ---I'll see if it is something that can be altered in software first I suppose and then resort to a wire swap if necessary.

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You can reverse a mouse axis in the MAME "Analog Controls" menu.

If someone figures out how to reverse an axis in Windows, it'll be time to dust off StefanBurger's trackball design here.

Scott

bobbyb13:
I thought I remembered seeing in a mame menu somewhere that you could swap spinner axis, so I was hoping I wasn't imagining it.
Seemed like the in game menu for advancemame is slightly different in spots from the regular builds I think but I think I will be able to make it work.

Thanks again as always Scott.
:cheers:

Of course now that I have cut a bunch of the cabinet (didn't need to do anything until 10am) we'll see if I can get time to stand it up before the week is out.
:)

bobbyb13:
A glimpse into how my mind works.
Scary, I know.

For when you have too many squares at hand, a fun little adjustable protractor, a straight edge, a pencil, and some graph paper.
This is important if you are trying to cram stuff into the smallest box possible, but for this cabinet not really critical.

I do it anyway.
So I measure out what I think is going to work and draw it out and then pile on the squares.

The adjustable protractor is to make sure that the depth of control panel I want to use fits at the preferred angle. That would be the small silver square.
In this case, 10 inches deep at a 5 degree angle.

From the back of that point I want to insure that I can get the CRT to fit properly, preferably with some room top and bottom for some bezel area. The face of that is obviously the blue square, but ensuring that this is all working requires that the neck of the tube with the board on it will fit inside the cabinet (including the fact that the back doors are 3/4" thick panels) and that would be the large silver square.
This I just check at the center point of where I want the screen to sit.
In most cases, apparently regardless of tube size even, 18" depth from the front of the screen face (keep in mind it is convex) is adequate.
This is a 25" tube but it a 110 degree angle so is pretty shallow that dimension.

Because there is huge leeway here as regards that angle the tube rests at it means that the marquee/speaker panel will fit at the size I want it to be also.
In this case about 8" tall and the specific angle is not really relevant.
That would be the orange square.

Makes sense, yeah?

That was last night.
I cut the panels this morning but haven't had time to clean them up and I'm too tired at this point.

Maybe tomorrow after some work.

And if pbj is reading here, spring has sprung for sure and we have had a bunch of rain recently.

4 cane toads last night.
The little shits.

Zebidee:
time to make some space in the freezer

bobbyb13:
There were already a half dozen in there from the last few months because I keep forgetting to bring them to the transfer station where they take this stuff to the incinerator!
All the green maniacs here would have a conniption if they knew where the power on this little rock came from- still.

--- Quote from: Zebidee on April 27, 2023, 03:58:41 am ---time to make some space in the freezer

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So the bonus for an absolute shitshow for weather today while trying to lay down some decking was that being rained out meant I could do some REAL work.
>:D

I took advantage of the fact that I had an hour to kill before work on Wed and cut the side templates out and this was probably the easiest cabinet yet of all that I have built.
After I had played with the design on paper for so long it didn't really occur to me until I cut the panels that this thing is what you would get if Q*bert, Tron, and Missile Command had a threesome love-child.

This morning I had a spare half hour and cut all but the speaker panel for the interior bits, unwittingly setting myself up for being able to work on it this afternoon because it started raining at 11am and just got worse until we called it at 2pm.

So I started with cleaning up my outline cuts.

The love-child thing is pretty obvious at this point then.

Thankfully I remembered that I needed to go to the local hardware store for some hard rubber casters on the way home because I had used up the stash of them I had.
They only had 3" ones but whatever. It just means I have more room for my fingers to get under the front to lock the swivel wheels so it doesn't jump around while you are playing.

I have found that you can stand the cabinet up pretty quickly if you have the lid and some battens ready to go, build the base and just start gluing and screwing stuff together.
This one is finally coming together so that it could be within 1/32" across any part when I'm done.
Only took me over a dozen to get to that.

I played around a bit with the number a bit but found that I still like the 5 degree angle thing for the control panel.
After I clamped some pieces in to drop the yoke panel on just to check it confirmed that suspicion.

If I could just make up my mind about the side panel graphics I could be playing this thing pretty soon.
I want to try vinyl laminate on this one but it doesn't play into the carbon fiber detail very well unless I am pulling off some kind of pinline border treatment somewhere.

I'll need to think on it some more but I know that I will get impatient and want to clear my workbench of the monitor pile and get playing the machine.
heheh

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