Amiga keyboard joystick

WOW Great !!!! Looking forward too see that masterpiece in action . I hope you bring them to the Sensi days

Of course I will be bringing it!

I can only say i saw a lot of crazy controlers for SWOS. I build some by myself (like pads or work on joystick s upgrade). But something like that i newer seen before and i wouldnt imagine so great solution - two sticks - one for main control, second for fast pass s etc. I would love to try it.

Btw, can you tear the pixelmen into pieces if you steer left with left stick and right with right stick at the same time? ;D

haha I wish, that d make for some nifty Captain Tsubasa ish (Die tollen Fußballstars?) action! ;D

Jokes aside I wired the sticks in a way that gives the left one priority (electrically speaking) over the right one, which means, in layman s terms, that whenever the left stick gets activated it literally takes over (regardless of the position of the right stick) at which point the pixellated men will start following its instructions no matter what and won t stop until it goes back to neutral position.

nope, the stick is common ground just like the old Commodore-era controllers and it uses very little power, therefore it works exactly like a regular Amiga joystick: once you ve plugged it into the Amiga joystick port you re set (I actually just dug up a 9 pin s cord from one of my old Quickshot Apache s, exposed the wires on the end farthest from the plug, used a multimeter to figure out which wire goes to which pin and wired the sticks microswitches accordingly) and it doesn t need an external power supply on PC/Playstation 3 either since it s equipped with a USB cable as well!

one of my best friends was coming over to play SWOS on my Amiga 1200 (he doesn t play online nonetheless he s pretty skillful and agreed to be my sparring partner for an entire afternoon since I need as much training as possible Vs. human opponents) but called while on the way here to inform me that he had forgotten to pick up his joystick.

I was like damn, I can t miss this training session, I ve got to do something about it ...so this is what I ve managed to put together with a bunch of scrap parts and some leftovers from my previous custom-stick in roughly a hour and a half (I knew he used to love the TAC2/Competition PRO-style controllers back in the days so that s what inspired the design):



not as polished as I would have liked but not too shabby either for just a couple hours of work. I ll prolly tweak it a bit next week and get it painted.

By the way, You can either keep it in your left hand Konix Speedking-style (hence the lateral button, you d push it with your left thumb while holding the stick with your right hand) or place it on a table/desk and use it just like any other arcade-stick.

For those who re curious I got the Challenge Court logo from an old tennis shirt I used to wear in the 90 s (it belonged to some overly colorful line of clothing made by Nike that Andre Agassi used to wear back then), I just folded it and scanned the huge print on the back lol.

So yeah, does anybody need a joystick for the Days?