Re: which encoder wheel?

>>I wonder what encoder Mad Planets uses. I should go check...the knob is
>>identical to Tempest but I don't know about the internals.
>
>*Doh!* Another one! ;-) Does the Mad Planets gizmo have a "decoder" PCB
>that the spinner talks to? (Or do the quadrature outputs go straight to
>the PCB?)

Oh, this is interesting...a never-before-seen type of spinner! It's a Wico
product with a red, fully-enclosed plastic casing. In addition to the
spinner shaft sticking out of the top, a small white roller sticks out the
side, so if you mount it 90 degrees off you get a miniature Major
Havoc-style roller controller! Did anyone else use this?

I can't get into the back of the game right now but there is no PCB between
the controller and the harnessing. Will check later.

// grigs
Received on Wed Aug 6 19:25:12 1997