RE: remapping controls

> That's an excellent idea, I was thinking of something similar. I have
> a
> Black Widow
> and I just acquired a Space Duel PCB with the thoughts of having a
> multi
> vector
> cab that would support Gravitar/Black Widow and Space Duel. I would
> like
> to use
> either the Space Duel or Gravitar control panel and the just add the
> joysticks.
>
I looked at the possibility of doing a SpaceDuel/BlackWidow/Gravitar
multigame a while back. The answer is that it's probably pretty
"doable" if you start with a Black Widow or Gravitar board. Starting
with a Space Duel gets kinda ugly. I'd remap the controls to the Space
Duel control panel since it's the "superset" of Gravitar. Black Widow
is still tricky since it needs sticks-- guess you could swap control
panels, or add joysticks to a Space Duel CP. (Ugh)

> Or we could wait for an enhanced CPU get-well-kit from Clay that would
> have
> the ROM's mapped out to a universal cp like the Sega multi game ; )
>
I have a suspicion that hacking Gravitar to use a Space Duel control
panel wouldn't be very hard. Does the Space Duel control panel plug
into Gravitar harness? If not, since an adapter would be needed anyway,
it's probably be better just to change the wiring in the harness
adapter.

A better idea might just be to have another little PCB that plugs into
the card edge connectors on Black Widow/Gravitar (like my color
asteroids mod) and does the pinout swap there instead. Easier to deal
with than making those molex or mate-n-lock connectors by hand...

I'm working on the CPU Get-well-kit as we speak. I might make a little
design change to give it a built-in software switchable multigame
function. (The more I thought about it the better it sounded to be able
to flip between different versions of Asteroids, or Black
Widow/Gravitar, etc. Still though, I might just make a "simple" version
soon that does the "get well" stuff and a more complex version later for
Multigames.

Asteroids threw me a curve for the Get Well Kit (they have a !@#$!@#
"page-select" line on the CPU RAM... Grrrrrrrrr...) so I'm tinkering
with that now again anyway...

-Clay
Received on Tue Feb 9 15:04:54 1999