Star Tech Journal
Issue: 1988-April - Vol 10 Issue 2 - Page 13
STAR*'IECH Journal
13
April 1988
•
Seninsky noted in last month's review (see
Suzo Inductive Joystick Review: March,
1988. Vol. 10, No. 1), butonlyforthefirsttwo
weeks. I suspect the drift in the beginning is
caused by the semiconductors aging. A little
bum-in was all that was needed. I could
force the stick out of adjustment by subject-
ADJUSTMENTS
ing it to large fluctuations in temperature,
There is only one user adjustment that
but the interior of most video games stay
relatively constant once they are turned on
needs to be dealt with and it is easily acces-
and warmed up. I am going to transfer the
sible from the bottom of the stick. It adjusts
the stick for 4 or 8
stick into a Vigilante
way operation and
conversion and let it
adiusts
for proper
"T
1
..L•
cook some more. I'll
cl
\ \ .J...
.l,.."'Q~HO'C\
sensing of the
O~c.~ O..:\ or - - - C.o\\
- ~~~
keep you posted on
sticks position. It is
its future operation.
a very simple
operation that can
CONCLUSION
In summary, the
be done in the self test mode or by
Suzo
inductive joys-
watching the movements of the player
tick is easy to install
in the game mode.
and to adjust. It is
just as rugged, if not
USE AND ABUSE
more so, as a me-
I subjected one of my test joysticks to
punishments that would make any 13
year old vidiot jealous! I dumped soft
drinks on it; none got into the electron-
ics. I put it into a vise and tried repeat-
edly to pull the stick out of the housing; all
Figure 7
I managed to do was to hit myself on the chin
one time when my hands slipped. I even
stood back and kicked the control stick. I did
chanical joystick, and should offer reliable
manage to crack the PC board when I backed
service for an extended period of time with a
minimum of maintenance. I'll be comment-
up and gave it a good whack, but if it had
been installed in a game I would have also
ing more on this unique joystick system in
the future.
put my foot through the front glass and
probably done great damage to my foot when
it hit the monitor.
voltage is what triggers the comparttor to
pull one, or two, of its outputs low. Simulat-
ing a closed contact. Very simple and very
effective. All of this is accomplished with
only 3 semiconductor packages. A 7 402, a
LM339, and a NPN transistor.
.
-
The other joystick was put into a Taito
Renegade that gets a lot of abuse from the
teenagers that frequent the location it is in.
It has operated flawlessly for over two
months. It did suffer from the pot drift Frank
***
13
April 1988
•
Seninsky noted in last month's review (see
Suzo Inductive Joystick Review: March,
1988. Vol. 10, No. 1), butonlyforthefirsttwo
weeks. I suspect the drift in the beginning is
caused by the semiconductors aging. A little
bum-in was all that was needed. I could
force the stick out of adjustment by subject-
ADJUSTMENTS
ing it to large fluctuations in temperature,
There is only one user adjustment that
but the interior of most video games stay
relatively constant once they are turned on
needs to be dealt with and it is easily acces-
and warmed up. I am going to transfer the
sible from the bottom of the stick. It adjusts
the stick for 4 or 8
stick into a Vigilante
way operation and
conversion and let it
adiusts
for proper
"T
1
..L•
cook some more. I'll
cl
\ \ .J...
.l,.."'Q~HO'C\
sensing of the
O~c.~ O..:\ or - - - C.o\\
- ~~~
keep you posted on
sticks position. It is
its future operation.
a very simple
operation that can
CONCLUSION
In summary, the
be done in the self test mode or by
Suzo
inductive joys-
watching the movements of the player
tick is easy to install
in the game mode.
and to adjust. It is
just as rugged, if not
USE AND ABUSE
more so, as a me-
I subjected one of my test joysticks to
punishments that would make any 13
year old vidiot jealous! I dumped soft
drinks on it; none got into the electron-
ics. I put it into a vise and tried repeat-
edly to pull the stick out of the housing; all
Figure 7
I managed to do was to hit myself on the chin
one time when my hands slipped. I even
stood back and kicked the control stick. I did
chanical joystick, and should offer reliable
manage to crack the PC board when I backed
service for an extended period of time with a
minimum of maintenance. I'll be comment-
up and gave it a good whack, but if it had
been installed in a game I would have also
ing more on this unique joystick system in
the future.
put my foot through the front glass and
probably done great damage to my foot when
it hit the monitor.
voltage is what triggers the comparttor to
pull one, or two, of its outputs low. Simulat-
ing a closed contact. Very simple and very
effective. All of this is accomplished with
only 3 semiconductor packages. A 7 402, a
LM339, and a NPN transistor.
.
-
The other joystick was put into a Taito
Renegade that gets a lot of abuse from the
teenagers that frequent the location it is in.
It has operated flawlessly for over two
months. It did suffer from the pot drift Frank
***
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