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720 revisited
SirPoonga:
Ok, so what are our options for 720?
Was there a build that you could assign a button to the calibration? I might use a motor brush on my spinner for callibration then.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on May 05, 2003, 11:14:48 pm ---Ok, so what are our options for 720?
Was there a build that you could assign a button to the calibration? I might use a motor brush on my spinner for callibration then.
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Mame:Analog+ can do any of the following:
[*](best) real controller[*](second best) analog joystick[*](eh) 8way[*](eh) normal spinner[/list]
I guess you could use a normal spinner, adjust analog sensitivity as close as possible, and set a button to the (8way) joystick - up. Haven't tried that though.
And Jake (jerryjanis) was nice enough to write up a howto on using the different inputs on analog+: http://newserver.mywwwserver.com/~jstookey/arcade/720/720-instructions.php Thanks Jake!
BTW, you can just dl a+'s source and use just the 720 edits in src/drivers/atarisy2.c; it's indepent of the rest of the code. Except one small part: you can change the player 4 input back to player 1. You'll see what I mean.
SirPoonga:
I'm just trying to find ways to make my scurrent spinner work well, with calibration.
I have two options, one of which I could try now, one of which I need money to buy parts.
My first ide is to have two optical inputs (two mice axis). This would be closest to a real controller I could get. I;ve explained that idea a couple of times here.
My other idea is, since the encoder disc I have is metal, to use a motor bruch on one side hooked up to ground, on the other side put a drop of solder on the disc. Then mount another motor brush at due north slightly off the disc surface so when the solder passes by it ccompletes a circuit. But in order for that to happen I need a way for that circuit to register as teh calibration disc.
shmokes:
If you could assign a button for calibration you could use the up or down action of Oscar's new DOT spinner to calibrate, eh?
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 06, 2003, 02:29:42 pm ---If you could assign a button for calibration you could use the up or down action of Oscar's new DOT spinner to calibrate, eh?
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No, that would be bad.