I've just released my first #game!!
#TMSnake for CP/M compatible #rc2014 computers with a #tms9918a video module and (optionally) a #AY89XX or #YM2149 sound module. It also optionally supports the #Tynemouth #joystick module.
Open Source Arcade Stick Build (C64 Version)
[1993] "Against All These Odds ... You Need This!"
#Gravis #constroller #joystick #retrogaming #videogames #90s #Geek
Arcade cab update: working on the control panel.
Replaced the Happ-style convex buttons and weirdo industrial-feeling joysticks with Japanese style balltop sticks and domed buttons, which I prefer.
Sanwa JLW joysticks fit the existing mounts almost perfectly and just needed mounting plate holes enlarged by 0.5 mm.
For OBSF-30 buttons, the original holes needed enlarging 28 -> 30mm. The original buttons had non-equidistant spacing -- P1 buttons 1+2 were much closer to each other than 2+3. P2 buttons the same but less extreme. Not a manufacturing mistake, all AR1100 cabs I've seen are like this.
Anyway, enlarging the holes offered opportunity to try to offset them, so I 3D printed a little guide to mark the new diameters before grinding. Ended up making my (quite worn) test buttons too loose, but the spacing looks nice now. We'll see how brand new ones fit. Still not 100% sure on final balltop/button color.
@Anachron You can use the joystick of a game controller to move the mouse cursor on Linux. I am in the process of configuring and using a Stadia Controller to edit videos with Kdenlive.
Had something I always wanted as a kid arrive the other week; Remember Cheetah's 'CHARACTERISTICKS?' There was a Terminator head one, a Batman one, Bart Simpson, and this, the Alien 3 licensed xenomorph joystick!
They popped up on Gamesmaster a time or two, and my partner spotted one cheap on eBay that had never been used and had been bought in '94 as an ornament and snagged it for me!
They released it for 8 and 16-bit consoles and home computers; this is the Mega Drive version and isn't as horrible to use as I expected. But I'm treating it gently all the same and it's more of a curio.
Atari's joystick has been an icon of the magical world of video games for 46 years!
Le mois dernier, un copain, ancien journaliste à #Joystick (Sundin, circa 2007-2011 
) mais aussi proto esportif car faisant partie avant ça des meilleurs joueurs français d'#AgeofEmpires III, sachant mon amour des #bigbox, m'a offert son exemplaire du jeu, sous forme de TRES GROSSE #bigbox. Qu'il en soit ici remercié.
On enchaîne sur du forcément moins culte. #BermudaSyndrome, on y vient pour son nom rigolo (et parce que je l'avais eu gratos dans un #Joystick), on y reste parce que c'est un clone sympa mais tardif de #Flashback & cie, et on finit par l'acheter parce qu'on le trouve pas cher sur Leboncoin ou un truc du genre.
J'ai le souvenir assez net d'avoir acheté la #bigbox de #ElderScrolls #Battlespire dans une boutique de #jeuxvidéo (qui n'existe plus) près de la galerie commerciale (qui n'existait pas encore) Les Champs à #SaintBrieuc, mais le ticket de caisse que j'ai retrouvé dans la boîte me fait douter. J'ai toujours trouvé l'illu hyper classe et le jeu, découvert dans #Joystick, intrigant. Mais en fait c'était un #Daggerfall débarrassé de tout ce qui en faisait l'intérêt, donc bof.
J'ai tout de suite adoré #Arcanum, dès sa preview dans #Joystick (lue et relue pendant, ça m'a marqué, des vacances de Noël 2000 curieusement passées à Nouakchott), puis en découvrant sa superbe boîte (embarquant l'#ost) et plus encore, évidemment, après y avoir joué ! Pour moi un classique à la hauteur des premiers #Fallout, visiblement pas si bon que ça quand je vois qu'il est beaucoup moins passé à la postérité. Sans doute à cause de ses bugs et de son équilibrage ? #retrogaming #jeuxvideo
Random Controller of the Day
The Bug (Cheetah)
1991
Amiga, Amstrad, Atari ST, C64, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum +2 / +3
The Cheetah Bug was a micro-switched joystick that featured a short stubby directional stick, two fire-buttons and an autofire function.
The Bug was originally released in a black finish. In 1993, a Green and Red variant, the "Slime Edition" was launched, and a Chrome variant was supposed to be released too.
This is my Amiga. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
@ausretrogamer on the apple ][ and //e paddles (pictured), they used 150Kohm pots.
Atari 2600 paddles used 1Mohm. Apparently both Commodore paddles used 470Kohm. The first version looks awfully similar to the Atari 2600 paddles.
#retrocomputing #joystick #paddle #apple #atari #commodore #c64 #vic20 #atari2600
