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| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Daviea on January 20, 2007, 09:50:51 pm ---Hey Fozzy. Thanks for the quick follow-up. I understand where you're at in this. Once your production run starts, can you give me a heads up? We should talk at that point in time just for good measure. --- End quote --- No Problem.... I'll drop you a line when I get to that stage. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
| Kremmit:
Heh. I got some of your cones (via Art) as well as some of the Atariswitch ones "back during the war". :cheers: Both parts are very, very nice, btw. I don't believe 1UP was making acutal repro Tron bases- I think he was working on a new base that would mimic the Tron restriction but fit in a standard Happ mounting template. I could be off on this, though. In any event, he hasn't been seen around these parts much in the last year or so. |
| Havok:
--- Quote from: Daviea on January 20, 2007, 01:47:24 pm ---I hope to have the yoke completed and released by the end of Feb. but I cannot commit to an exact release date yet as I'm waiting on the outside vendors to produce the handles and wire. --- End quote --- Great news! Looks like this is going to make a perfect birthday present for me, hopefully you can deliver on your projected availability. One question: I assume this is going to be an exact reproduction, so us Mame folks will have to supply our own pc interface (sidewinder hack/aki, etc)? Or, are there also plans to include an optional pc interface? |
| Xiaou2:
David, As far as I recall, 1up was trying to make modified bases that were less bulky.. of course, this would have caused them to be less durrable. It coudl have also been some sort of restrictor for place over typical 8ways. Again, not a very durrable solution. One special thing about the Tron sticks were the specialized restrictors. Making a 4 way restrictor but out of some sort of rubber. This then allowed 8way movment if you pressed hard enough. Quite ingenious :) ... and the only way to play the lightcycle section of the tron game. Someone was considering making the restrictors only, so that they could be transplanted onto the other non-tron 8way joysticks. However, it never got completed. Also, the materials were not correct. And finally, I dont think anyone makes the leafs for them either. Another great Repro would be the 4 way Pacman joys. As most are completely devestated by now. Many people are replacing them with joys that really are not very good feeling nor controlling. They actually have a very simular base to the tron sticks. |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: jerryjanis on January 20, 2007, 03:13:06 pm ---An interesting thing about the pictures from the manual is that some of the parts on the original joystick that I own are slightly different from the ones in the manual. For example, the shaft on my joystick is solid - mine doesn't have the lathed section in the middle. My best guess is that maybe some of the joysticks broke, and they redesigned that part on newer revisions. --- End quote --- Thanks for the reminder! Atari has done that to other controls, too. Not counting minor sensor board changes that you could switch without regard to what version, I know of two others. The sprint steering wheels had a pretty major revision (from plastic to alum & loose the 4" bolt for two, one on each end that the aluminum allowed). The hall effect boards had at least three revisions that effected how it was calibrated: from hardware POT adjustments, to all software calibration in game, to automatic calibration at power up (& possibly more that didn't change the calibration). All three of these controller changes (720, sprint, hall effect) were for the better. So make sure you're repro-ing the best revision. ;) |
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