Re: remapping controls

Why not just make a small remap circuit board that has the correcting
wiring built in. Then you can plug your various boards in to the
remap...making a "Universal" colour vector cabinet...has promise...

John :-#)#

Franklin Bowen wrote:
>
> Atari did it to confound collecters' plans 20 years later! :-)
>
> *IF* all the controls from Space Duel actually have trace connections to an
> input chip on your Gravitar board, then yes, it MIGHT be possible.
> Actually, that's a great idea but only *IF*...
>
> PS Oh, I wanted your SD cocktail alright. The only problem was $, space,
> and geography.
>
> "Miranda K. Collins" <miranda@angel.com> on 02/09/99 02:34:28 PM
>
> Please respond to vectorlist@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu
>
> To: vectorlist@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu
> cc: (bcc: Franklin Bowen/MD/CheckFree)
> Subject: remapping controls
>
> While thinking about how annoying it will be to make a wiring harness to
> remap the controls from a Space Duel cabinet to a Gravitar board (Why did
> Atari do that!!?!?! They are the same buttons!!!) I thought of something
> else... What about disassembling the Gravitar code and changing the part
> that assigns the buttons? Then you could have a custom set of Gravitar
> ROMs that would allow you to just swap out the two games! Ok all you
> hackers, does anyone know where this information is stored? Jess, if you
> could make Major Havoc 2, this must be a breeze...right?
>
> Miranda
>
> P.S. No one wanted my Space Duel CT so we already dragged it up 3 flights
> of stairs to the new apartment. I guess I'm keeping it FOREVER now! :P
> So I want to make it a SD/Gravitar CT now so I get more use out of it.

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