Here’s a new controller I put together for a customer. It doesn’t have a fancy case but went together pretty quickly, kind of like the Guitar Hero drum pedal puff switch. (Well, not as quickly as that one, but faster than most)
To see some more pics that may inspire you to mod a controller of your own, see below.
Thanks to Michael Bonkowski – the person who commissioned the Atari 800 laptop – I now have an Atari 1050 disk drive!
As some of you may know the Atari 800 was my first computer at age 11 (myself, not the computer). Sure even then it was fairly old, but still awesome. Over the years I programmed (or tried to program) many a game for it in BASIC. While the hobby never really accomplished much at the time, I give the experience a lot of credit for the computer knowledge I have today.
Several years ago I bought an SIO2PC cable, which allows you to hook up your Atari to a PC and use the PC as a virtual disk drive. You can play disk images off your PC, or make images of your original floppies. That was all well and good, but my Atari 810 disk drive failed shortly after getting this cable. So I didn’t manage to copy much.
But now thanks to Michael I can finally back up those old disks and realize just many games I never finished! However what was somewhat complete or playable has been made into ATR disk images and you can check them out here.
Should be good for a laugh, enjoy!
We’re back! In this exciting episode we discuss Wisconsin’s dowloadable content tax (lame), The Beatles Rock Band (awesome) and new upcoming games this fall and spring (numerous).
There’s been a lot of interest lately in my Controller Monitor. So I thought I’d reiterate some things about it for interested parties:
If this sounds like something that would be useful for your company please drop me a line to discuss. I’m setting up a batch within the next few weeks.
Greetings, citizens of the internet! I am planning to attend the Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention, taking place September 26th.
You can check out their website here. I’m going to bring my Atari 800 laptop (before it goes out to the customer) so hopefully I won’t get beat up too badly. I’m sure it will be fun for computer geeks of all backgrounds.
So if you’re in the area why not check it later?
Here is another custom controller I’ve done up. The idea requested by the customer was to make the shoulder buttons easier to get at, so I’ve replicated them on the front. Sadly, this calls for the removal of the rumble motors, although of course according to Sony cira 2006 “that’s a last-gen feature anyway”.
Need a mod for a specific purpose? Contact me, that’s what I do!
There’s a new gaming convention called Infinite Bits and they’ve asked me to attend their opening show. It is in Miami, FL from October 23-25 2009.
I will be there to give panels, answer questions, show off whatever new gadgets I have and of course networking!
You can check out their press release by clicking here. Or visit their main site listed below.
http://www.infinitebitsconvention.com/
So if you’re in that part of the country, why not stop by? More info as it becomes available!