Apache push/pull - Front Line solution???

[Texasmame]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=56519.msg558221#msg558221

What say?

I'm hoping it is - dig that FL! 

[MYX]

The Front line turning was done with switches not a spinner, so it is not an optical source. It is a rotary set of switches.
As I understand it, it is a little box of 4 switches and there is a brush and as you turn the JS the brush rotates and depresses the switches.

Retroblast had a review of Druins rotary joystick interface coupled with the GGG GPWiz49 and Happs 49 way Joy.

LINK

[Texasmame]

Bummer. 

[apachecontrols]

The Blackhawk circuit controller is designed to emulate standard PC-based mouse control movements. This allows for the widest possible selection of true spinner games to play via emulation. Any game which can use a mouse input will work; Tempest, DOT, etc.

Games like Front-Line are not true spinner games and as such will not work with standard mouse input devices. They only work with rotary position-style switch-based inputs.

If there is enough interest, maybe we'd consider building these types of controllers in the future.
 

  David


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[MYX]

I think that there is an interest, but I can not see paying a lot for a control that is really valid for 1 game. But, Texasmame, your right, it is a great game. It always kicked my butt. I have looked at em on ebay a couple of times.

[Texasmame]

I think that there is an interest, but I can not see paying a lot for a control that is really valid for 1 game. But, Texasmame, your right, it is a great game. It always kicked my butt. I have looked at em on ebay a couple of times.

Ditto, there would be an interest but I don't think it would be cost effective to produce the controls.  They would have to be dirt cheap to sell enough of them, since they're only for one game, and "dirt cheap" doesn't usually go with "profit." 

Yeah, it's a fun, challenging game.  I remember back in the day, there was a gaming mag that showed you a place to sit with your tank (wedged in the corner of two of the brick walls, IIRC) where you could sit the whole game and pick off enemy tanks and they could never get you.  It worked but was also kinda boring after a while. 

[Kremmit]

I think that there is an interest, but I can not see paying a lot for a control that is really valid for 1 game.

4 games!

Frontline
Wild Western
The Tin Star
Sheriff / Bandido (clone)

A regular joystick coupled with a triggerstick or top-fire joystick, while totally non-authentic, will play those games without the specialty controller.  The regular stick is for movement, the 2nd stick aims and fires.

[destructor]

For Front Line in MAME I use 2 TopFire joystick. Very comfortable.