Bondi wrote on Yesterday, 15:20:Okay, thanks a lot 😀
You're welcome. Hope that the picovox will serve you well!
Hi @jansakos and @dreamblaster.
I have a question too:
One of the devices that the Picovox can emulate is the FTL Sound Adapter. But the Picovox currently doesn't have a 9-pin joystick port on it, like the original FTL Sound Adapter had. At least, not the edition being sold on Serdashop right now.
The fact that the original FTL Sound Adapter had both PCM output and joystick input support for Atari and Commodore joysticks was what made it such a cool and interesting device.
And also, many laptops and systems lacking ISA slots that don't have integrated sound cards often don't have game ports either.
Granted, there aren't many games that support the game port on the FTL Sound Adapter. Maybe Dungeon Master was the only one? But support for additional games could still be implemented, through custom patches, drivers, or emulation TSRs.
Any plans to implement that in a future revision of the Picovox? And perhaps other input functionality as well in the future?
Thanks again for such an incredibly cool device!
digger wrote on Yesterday, 16:39:Hi @jansakos and @dreamblaster. […]
Hi @jansakos and @dreamblaster.
I have a question too:
One of the devices that the Picovox can emulate is the FTL Sound Adapter. But the Picovox currently doesn't have a 9-pin joystick port on it, like the original FTL Sound Adapter had. At least, not the edition being sold on Serdashop right now.
The fact that the original FTL Sound Adapter had both PCM output and joystick input support for Atari and Commodore joysticks was what made it such a cool and interesting device.
And also, many laptops and systems lacking ISA slots that don't have integrated sound cards often don't have game ports either.
Granted, there aren't many games that support the game port on the FTL Sound Adapter. Maybe Dungeon Master was the only one? But support for additional games could still be implemented, through custom patches, drivers, or emulation TSRs.
Any plans to implement that in a future revision of the Picovox? And perhaps other input functionality as well in the future?
Thanks again for such an incredibly cool device!
Hi,
as of now, there is no support for any external joystick. The FTL Sound Adapter is, as far as I know, supported only in Dungeon Master, therefore I have decided not to add support for it. But, I have also thought about adding some joystick support. The question is how to handle it, if I should make separate mode for it, support it only in FTL mode or support it in all modes that will not collide with it.
All of this is just a firmware choice, however adding support for connecting joystick port should not be that hard. Both DIY and Serdaco version contain expansion header, which can be used for connecting anything e.g. joystick. So I just need to design something (passive design I guess) for connecting joystick and then implement it into the firmware.
TLDR: I would like to implement some sort of joystick support and both versions should be able to use it with a simple expansion board.
