Freeplay adapter board (was Re: Dig Dug freeze problem)

From: <solarfox_at_texas.net>
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 20:05:34 EST

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:53:34 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>I like it when help I offer actually "works" - hehe!
>
>I'd like to add my hat to the "Free Play Hack" need. If the game used a
>standard leaf switch as a 1 or 2 player start button, I would just stack
>another "coin switch" with some fish paper like a pinball machine, but
>micro switches prevent that.

        OK, I have a question here; this is a project I've been kicking around
on paper for a while...

        How much interest would there be in a little PCB which could be fitted
into a cabinet, in between the coin/player-start switches and the game
board, that would automagically trigger the appropriate number of credits
on the coin switches and then trigger the player-start switch whenever it
detects the 1-Player or 2-Players button being pressed?

        (What I have in mind is something as "universal" and as minimally
invasive to the original wiring harness as possible; ideally, all that it
would require is for you to tack the PCB's player-start and coin-switch
wires across the originals, without actually breaking or cutting the
harness; the only wiring taps that might be needed would be to pick off GND
and +5V from somewhere in the cabinet.)

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