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| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on October 25, 2004, 12:22:25 am ---Atari as an arcade entity doesn't really exist. I wouldn't worry about them coming after your yoke repro, they haven't come after any OTHER repro makers, including the ones bootlegging their games, so your yoke should be quite safe --- End quote --- They sure as hell HAVE gone after people using their IP. Go to Atariage.com and look at the havoc Infogrames has wreaked on the console homebrew scene. |
| Lilwolf:
The hydra controllers scales the y axis because of the design. The center portion of the Y Axis has more accuracy... So jumping to look up in starwars takes a bit to get used to... Then the hydra uses different springs... and has a center area that I thought was different then a true starwars controller... but I don't have one to sit next to my hydra to compare.. Last.. If you could limit the down easily in your design for a stunrunners controller and use the different grips.. Then you would be able to sell it... But I'm not sure if they are the only differences... |
| Marvincade:
Tailgunner's comment on the cost of an exact grip mold is correct. That is something I forgot in my conversion with the president of the company. I think that is why he was pushing for a new and improved instead of exact reproduction. The reason I visited this company was because my mom knows the president, through her work with the company. I had just finished restoring my broken yoke (new pots, switches, and gears) and converted it to a PC flight yoke. The president was not too impressed with the design or details of the yoke, it was just old hat to him, all business on his end of things. It was luck that these guys actually build real flight yokes. Anyway the opportunity was there to visit and show off the yoke so I did. I must say that I have been playing flight sim type games with this yoke and the control is pretty impressive. This is where I am coming from hobby wise. |
| RayB:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 25, 2004, 10:57:43 am --- --- Quote from: paigeoliver on October 25, 2004, 12:22:25 am ---Atari as an arcade entity doesn't really exist. I wouldn't worry about them coming after your yoke repro, they haven't come after any OTHER repro makers, including the ones bootlegging their games, so your yoke should be quite safe --- End quote --- They sure as hell HAVE gone after people using their IP. Go to Atariage.com and look at the havoc Infogrames has wreaked on the console homebrew scene. --- End quote --- A long time ago, Atari was split up into Atari Coin Op and the Atari that made the home consoles and computers. Same name, diff companies. Infogrames bought the console/computer side and I believe Williams/Midway swallowed up Atari Coin op. |
| Chris:
The Atari yokes are modeled off the gunnery controls of Bradley fighting vehicles, so I don't think they would have a trademark or patent on the design, as long as they were shipped without art. Does anyone with a yoke see a patent number on it anywhere? --Chris |
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