Dad's Custom Atari Peripherals – By Jim Trageser

2 comments

• jamesgill 2 days ago
  A fun story, but what really grabbed me was the story he linked to about the author's father, the engineer: https://lostincyberspace.substack.com/p/son-of-a-son-of-a
• throwawayk7h 2 days ago
  Sadly this kind of thing is not possible anymore on modern consoles, due to the highly locked-down protocols they use.
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  • pyottdes 1 minute ago
    You can still just direct solder to any of the shelf controller pcb to make your own devices. There are also more resources out there than ever before for creating your own inputs.

    https://youtu.be/Ug06dhahqg0
  • toast0 5 minutes ago
    All the recent generations accept USB controllers, is there really much locked down in there?
  • blightful 57 minutes ago
    Have you seen the xbox adaptive controller?