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spidermonkey:
http://www.wizzesworkshop.com/cart/product.asp?intProdID=20
Grasshopper the older 49-ways ie Sinistar, Arch Rivals use what they call a "spider" which is made out of a elastic rubbery material and gives you the feel of a rubber grommet type stick. I'm not sure what the newer Happ 49-way sticks use ie NFL Blitz but if I had to guess I would probably say they use a spring since thats what Happ uses in most of their sticks.
ani:

--- Quote from: spidermonkey on May 02, 2004, 07:48:23 pm ---http://www.wizzesworkshop.com/cart/product.asp?intProdID=20
Grasshopper the older 49-ways ie Sinistar, Arch Rivals use what they call a "spider" which is made out of a elastic rubbery material and gives you the feel of a rubber grommet type stick. I'm not sure what the newer Happ 49-way sticks use ie NFL Blitz but if I had to guess I would probably say they use a spring since thats what Happ uses in most of their sticks.

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I've got a box full of 49 ways from my blitz machine. They have springs inside just like the rest of happ's sticks.
paigeoliver:
Ok, got my interface boards today. I haven't used them yet, but I can give a few quick comments.

The AKI boards and the 49-way boards are the same board with the exception of 3 resistors, but I am sure the chip onboard is programmed differently. I only note this because at first glance I thought I got three copies of the same board instead of 2 49-way interfaces and 1 AKI. Also, the 49-way boards are silk-screened as AKIs.

The build quality of the boards is decent, not QUITE as nice as the I-Pac or Keywhiz, but still quite nice.

My boards came fairly quickly (a week I think), and I will pot more details once I start hooking them up to stuff.
Lilwolf:
As that they look very similar..

this would be because of my heavy hints on how easy it would be able to do it with just a chip change on his current board.

I was hoping it wouldn't even take the resistor changes... And I believe that the changes where only needed because he wanted to be able to change the scaling.  

Anyway, I finally got my board and 49way back a bit ago... but I had to work last weekend and couldn't mount my joystick.

I'm pretty excited.

but as the 'new 8way' this would only be useful with the happs version because of the spider.  But I plan on playing with it and see how it plays for 8way games.

So I will give a report in a week or so with a sinister joystick.

anyone with a happs + controller please do the same!
daveb:
Hi guys, just a quick note for the curious...
I had to remove the 3 pull-up resistors for the 49-way board to keep from potentially frying the circuits in whatever joystick would be connected.  A chip outputting a 0 has to sink whatever current is on the line, and having that connected to +5v even through a 4.7k resistor might be beyond the specs of the older sticks.  It's really not that much current, but rather than risk it, I just removed the pull-ups.
Anyways, the boards were designed to be pretty versatile... I'd even be willing to offer them socketed without a chip, for use as a PIC 16c745 development board if anyone's interested :)  Of course, you'd need a UV eraser and a device programmer.. unfortunately there's no flash version of the PIC USB chips.
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