Doepfer

hey, thanks guys! i do have an old powershot (pot based, with 
autofire :) if it's only the matter of replacing resistors it's no 
problem. i was only afraid not to damage the original module.  
thanks very much again!
tomek

p.s. serial mouse would be nice too :)

p.s.2. will doepfer come out with a newer cd of (maybe not examples 
but) music from people creating something more than sci-fi type 
sounds ?




--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Nick Hubben <nick@p...> wrote:
> AFAIK, a lot of the early game system joysticks were merely 
switches ("go
> left, go right"), not using potentiometers at all.
> 
> I've got a box full of a good assortment of game 
joysticks/controllers.. If
> anybody needs anything or wants me break some open and see what the 
guts
> look like.
> 
> Cheers, nick 
> 
> > 
> > Hi Tomek (I assume, this is your name)
> > 
> >> did anybody try hooking up an external joystick to a-174 ? is it
> >> possible ?
> > You mean: if the original is broken? Or use a external joystick 
(e.g
> > from a table top game) instead of the original joystick? Or in 
addition
> > to the original joy stick?
> > 
> > Basically it should not be difficult. The problem might be, that
> > external controllers use individual values for the potentiometer
> > resistance. Example: I have two simply external joy sticks from 
an old
> > video game. They have 40k for the y-axis and 500k for the x-axis. 
So
> > these won't fit for the A-174 assumingly. I use them simply 
connected to
> > a 5V power line and the centerpin is used as cv out.
> > 
> > 
> > If you are able to modify the A-174, it is not too difficult for 
you to
> > build a simple joystick module from the scratch.
> > 
> > Florian
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >