Sleepy

Hi,

I used one of the terrible ATARI "deluxe" Joysticks. As stick, this type of controller is useless, but as rotary-controller pretty.
Trigger "A" & "C" are put on the original triggers, the "B"-button is intrigued to the encoder - I used an ALPS-encoder with push-button.
 rotary 7800.JPG   53.96K   7 downloads
 rotary back.jpg   135.92K   8 downloads

The nob´s shaft is shortenend as far as possible.
 rotary knopf.JPG   247.82K   6 downloads

Additional, there are two micro-switches for "Pause" and "Option":
 rotary switches.JPG   309.15K   8 downloads
 rotary back.JPG   133.79K   10 downloads

A new pcb with a reduced version of the original Jaguar-controller-circuit replaced the original:
 rotary BS.JPG   71.9K   11 downloads

The diodes in the pics are back to front!

Sleepy

O.K., thanks. In order to be prepared for software which may use this feature I´ll add the right setting.

Sleeπ

I used a 7800-delux-controller to build a rotary-controller by myself.
I don´t like this kind of joystick to play with, so I had no scruples to modify.
As spinner it works well...

Now it looks like this:
 rotary 7800.JPG   53.96K   16 downloads

"A" (Jump) und "B" (Fire)-trigger put to the original fire-buttons, missing trigger "C" (electric death) is realized with an incremental encoder with push-switch.

For "pause" and "option" I added two micro-switches:
 rotary switches.JPG   309.15K   16 downloads

Some pictures from the inside:
 rotary BS.JPG   71.9K   14 downloads
 rotary LS.JPG   127.53K   16 downloads
 rotary back.JPG   133.79K   16 downloads

The circuit based on the standard jaguar-controller without diodes if not necessary, numberpad and up/down-switch. The inkremental-encoder is wired instead of "left" and "right"-switch. The diodes shown at the pictures are still the wrong way around...

In the jag controller´s shematic are three bits (C1..C3 at the bottom) to tell the jaguar which type of controller is attached. Do they have any function? I´ve set them to standard-controller (all thre bits open), but Tempest works fine in rotax-mode...

Sleepy

Hi,

thanks for your tips & software.
I´ll forward them to Bunsen; at the last ATARI-meeting he take sally (the ATR8000-clone we try to get running) home to do some tests. With sally, we also got some disks labeld with "CP/M"; maybe one of them works.

sleepy

Hi tep392,

nice work!

Please put down one cart for me!

Thanks, Sleepy