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| Ixliam:
After building my mame cabinet, I thought it would be nice to be able to play Intellivision games on it as well. I dug around on the net and found pinouts for the controllers, which use a interesting numeric keypad along with a 16 direction disc direction pad. The problem is that on pure diagonals, it connects three pins together, but the Nostalgia emulator only takes two input. There have been Intellivision to PC interfaces built commercially, but at present none are available. So, here is my circuit diagram that I came up with **UNTESTED** that should allow me to hook my Intellivision controllers up to my iPAC. I hope to get the parts in within the week and have at least a single controller interface constructed. The pinouts and info on the controllers can be found here at http://users.erols.com/tiltonj/games/tech/intvcont.html I plan on using quad triple input AND gate chips and quad XOR gate chips. Again, this diagram has not been tested so if you build it before me and blow up anything, I am not responsible. It will be better if you click to view the image by itself or save it out on your drive. Brad |
| jcroach:
Hey, Did you ever build this? Can we get a status report? |
| telengard:
--- Quote from: jcroach on February 03, 2005, 11:20:55 am ---Hey, Did you ever build this? Can we get a status report? --- End quote --- Not to take away from the above design, but I found an adaptor that supports this. I was going to get one before xmas but I guess the company had issues w/ the manufacturer. Here's the link: http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/index.html. I started to build a generic contraption to handle all of these controllers but have only got as far as supporting Atari joysticks. Too many projects, too little time... |
| Stingray:
Okaygoing in the other direction: I like building arcade controls for my old systems. After I finish my current Colecovision project, an INTV controller will be next. My question is, given that the INTV is 16 way, what if any arcade joystick could be hacked to it? -S |
| Kremmit:
An analog stick would probably be the easiest. Or, a 49 way could theoretically support 24 discreet directions, as the "49 ways" are really the boxes in a 7x7 grid. There are 24 boxes in the outside ring on the grid, see 1st pic. Now, look at the 2nd pic: make each red box code for a discreet direction. Then, the blue corner boxes, AND their adjacent blue boxes all code to the diagonal. Maybe the green box too, I dunno. The corners would be a little over emphasized. |
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