You were right about your rotary, very cool

Nice to see my cable in pride of place too
I also like your arcade stick
Actually, I've been thinking about grabbing some buttons and a stick from Happ and running wild...they're quite cheap at the moment. Mine would have to be a complete monster though...I was thinking of making the top ouf of a polished granite offcut from the local kitchen supplier

That would be sweet, if possibly a little sweaty

No problems with rigidity there

It's also nice because I'd only need a 4-way joystick (same as the pad) which are even cheaper.
Question: if I connected an HD15 sockets pins to all the populated lines of the cable, could I then plug a second pad into it and use it as a mirror of the main buttons? It'd be good for 'fiddly bits' where more control is required than is possible with a stick, and it would also work for the numeric pad. Just like the passthrough Atari envisaged, in fact; though I don't know if a solution this trivial would work. Iwould test it but I don't have any HD15 sockets immediately available
Anyway, great collection Gunstar, I'll try and return your flash cart safe and sound
Stone