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Project A-kab = FINISHED!
Zobeid:
After a number of experiments, I decided to have somebody else paint the cabinet for me. I dropped it off at his shop yesterday. Then I went back to work on the control panel. Check it. . .
Top-mounted U360 goodness!
And the full layout. . .
I love it when a plan comes together.
Quaternion:
Looking good! Are those U360's mounted 90 degrees from normal? Mine have to have the plate wider in the horizontal direction. (Although it's quite possible you can take it apart and change that, or that you're just remapping in software...)
Zobeid:
All it takes is a few seconds with a screwdriver, to remove those top plates and turn them 90 degrees. So you can orient them either way.
Zobeid:
Today I wired my control panel. Biggest problem I had was crimping. . . First I had a cheap Chinese-made crimper that just wasn't going to get the job done. After replacing that, I found the U360 encoder harness has wires so small that they still didn't want to crimp too well. Ah well. . . I eventually got it done.
I also made a crude box, hastily cobbled together from some old, water-damaged 1/2" plywood, that I have set my panel in. This way I can test it and play around with it until my cabinet gets back from the paint shop.
Unfortunately, I think I have now hit an unforeseen obstacle that threatens to stop my progress dead in its tracks. . . It's called Typhoon 2001.
This game is incredible.
I always wanted to play Tempest 2000 with a spinner, and I've got to say it's as good as I imagined. I had to turn the mouse speed adjustment way down -- I ended up with it set on the minimum, but it works well with the TT2 spinner.
Oh yeah, Tempest works quite well in MAME too.
ablizno:
@zobeid why didnt u paint it yourself.