6 Dec
2007
6 Dec
'07
1:18 p.m.
On Dec 6, 2007 3:42 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at usap.gov> wrote:
Interesting. My own curiosity is from the standpoint of being able to
hang them off of Commodore, not Atari, hardware. It all seems rather
straightforward from your description.
I think it should be. As I understand it, the joystick ports on the C64 are
wired to the bidrectional parallel pins on the CIA, so it seems like it
would just be a matter of setting the data direction registers as
appropriate.
Do you have any info on the sensor probes?
Not much, unfortunately. The base system comes with only the temperature
probe, which handles a 23F - 113F (-5C to 45C) range and is basically a
thermistor on a wire. Its response is not particularly linear -- after
calibration it's accurate to about 1C at the low end and 2C at the high end.
I know there's a light module as well, which I assume is just a
photoresistor on a wire, but I don't know if any others were produced. All
of these was released in 1983, which was a Bad Year for Atari...