David Alexander Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Yes, if we could one day get a rotary control for the 5200 that would really make Tempest great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indrid Cold Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 It's not in the store right now, but I'd be glad to make you a cart with a nice label. I will send you a PM. Yes, the game does have Trak-Ball support. ..Al Hello! I am new here, but would love to know if you can still make a Millipede cartridge, and what it would look like, and how much would it cost? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzep Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 We'll relay your sentiments to Dan Kramer but his project was more of a proof-of-concept. He had the arcade Tempest control panel wired to a CX53 to get it to work. It was clamped down on the table so it wouldn't get knocked over. He did it in about a week and the spinner was spinning the opposite direction. I should ask him if he resolved that but I think he had other projects to attend to since then. That and selling his *real* Super Pac-Man A8 proto which he had great success with. I say *real* because it was from Atari Consumer Engineering and not a *repro* like everyone else markets as a *proto*. It was funny that he had it available to play at the Davis Atari Party and had a styrofoam cup covering up the cartridge inserted into an 800XL to reduce the chance of theft. Well, it might be enough for some of us who own Tempest spinners if he could just detail how he wired his to the trak-ball, a schematic and hopefully a few pics that show what wires went where. I assume he wired the spinner into the trak-ball board but maybe it was spliced into the controller cord? Either way, a little blog page or tutorial would be great so that any of us with a working Tempest arcade game/control panel could reproduce the same results. I'd certainly owe him much drinks, haahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Hello! I am new here, but would love to know if you can still make a Millipede cartridge, and what it would look like, and how much would it cost? Thank you! PM Albert about this. Note that he posted a picture of the cart he can make earlier in this thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/254437-millipede-5200/?p=3555676 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indrid Cold Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Just spent a few minutes playing Millipede with the wonderful 5200 Trak-Ball controller. Really plays great, although wish I could modify the sensitivity of the Trak-Ball (like you can do with a mouse on your computer), as i'd make it a bit faster.. Here's a photo I just took of a cart: ..Al Whoops, just saw this! Beautiful!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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