#mousetrap — Public Fediverse posts

Today I changed my old "Bosch" joystick into a #MouseTrap 🕹

MouseTrap supports Twinstick controls but for these type of games buttons work better for me than a stick.

I digged out my old joystick with a history back to 1985. The console enclosure I made of wood and in a wooden plate I had two CX40 mounted to play #Robotron on my #C64.

I still can imagine how tidy it was built by my 14-year-old self... and then it got changed several times over decades and became a mess😉 If you wonder how the Roman Empire could fail, here you see😂

Slaughtered a joystick and integrated its rapidfire unit but the chip broke some years ago. We are the Borg😂

Added A/B button functionality when I got my #Atari7800 and added a switch to turn it off as it caused trouble on the Amiga.

Now I've put the 7800 B button on the little black button from the broken rapidfire unit and wired the dpad on a second cable.

Mouse control to major Tom😎

Have to make key templates for #Stargate and #Missile Command 😂