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Hot Coco had an article about hooking it up to the TRS-80 Color Computer. https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol
by Mountain_Skies 2y ago
Hot Coco had an article about hooking it up to the TRS-80 Color Computer.
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%202%20No.%208%20-%20January%201985.pdf https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Ho...
>By moving the joystick (a mechanical linkage), you select one of a series of rotating cams that connect a gear to the power shaft. This is probably the worst design possible for modification to electronic control.
At the time I was disappointed that it didn't use (non-existing) motors already in the Armatron but looking back at it with an understanding of the mechanical design, it's easy to see why they went with that decision. The only other choice would have been to connect to the joysticks themselves. The added motors probably improved the operation quite a bit.
- chillingeffect 2y agoAhhh so it had only motor that got switched in and out mechanically, eh? That must be why it was always whirring even when not moving. I guess small motors were not cheap back then :)