It is called Death Race by Exidy in 1976 and used no CPU.
There seems to be schematics in the manual seen here:
https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_deta ... me_id=7541
This would be a cool game for MiSTer....
rare arcade game not emulated anywhere else
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It will be hard to simulate the wheel. As far as i know it has endless turn. So even though if this game will be re-created, the control cannot be simulated at the same experience at it had.
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The controls could be simulated with the joystick using the code I wrote for Sprint. It isn’t perfect but allows you to play the game. Not the same feeling as whipping the steering wheel around and letting it spin.Sorgelig wrote:It will be hard to simulate the wheel. As far as i know it has endless turn. So even though if this game will be re-created, the control cannot be simulated at the same experience at it had.
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The Atari 2600 Driving controller (through a good USB adapter) would be nice for these games.alanswx wrote:The controls could be simulated with the joystick using the code I wrote for Sprint. It isn’t perfect but allows you to play the game. Not the same feeling as whipping the steering wheel around and letting it spin.Sorgelig wrote:It will be hard to simulate the wheel. As far as i know it has endless turn. So even though if this game will be re-created, the control cannot be simulated at the same experience at it had.
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Wow. I never had one of those. We could plug it into the serial port possibly. Unless someone already has a USB adapter for it.Lightwave wrote:The Atari 2600 Driving controller (through a good USB adapter) would be nice for these games.alanswx wrote:The controls could be simulated with the joystick using the code I wrote for Sprint. It isn’t perfect but allows you to play the game. Not the same feeling as whipping the steering wheel around and letting it spin.Sorgelig wrote:It will be hard to simulate the wheel. As far as i know it has endless turn. So even though if this game will be re-created, the control cannot be simulated at the same experience at it had.
Otherwise an arcade spinner might be a good choice. We can add “mouse” support to these cores to get the spinner working.
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JoGcon controller is also a good candidate for this.
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I didn't say it's impossible. It just will be completely different game, as the wheel with its physical specifics is a major part of such game.
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Retronic Design Adapter is supporting them.Lightwave wrote: The Atari 2600 Driving controller (through a good USB adapter) would be nice for these games.
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Being able to play it at all is interesting.
Cores like the PDP-1 and Computer Space are interesting but there are some
other projects that allow you to mess with them.
Having some rare and non-MAME games on MiSTer would be neat.
Cores like the PDP-1 and Computer Space are interesting but there are some
other projects that allow you to mess with them.
Having some rare and non-MAME games on MiSTer would be neat.
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The 2600-daptor II (or one of its variants) is also a good choice. I believe the Bliss Box should support this as well.THaase wrote:Retronic Design Adapter is supporting them.Lightwave wrote: The Atari 2600 Driving controller (through a good USB adapter) would be nice for these games.
(But yes, even with smooth control from an endless encoder, you still miss the inertia of a large free-spinning wheel).
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So someone has code running on a FPGA.
Those steering wheels are pretty simple too.
I remember playing this game when I was like 11 years old.
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Sorgelig, games like Pong or Taito Speed Race CLV both TTLs without roms which used 360 wheel continuous spinning wheel - is there no way of getting it running using say a mouse X Axis? Playing experience for the rotary encoder games using a dpad / Joystick is pretty poor.
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it's up to developer
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I fear many games with a steering wheel need one to play them well.crocky wrote:Sorgelig, games like Pong or Taito Speed Race CLV both TTLs without roms which used 360 wheel continuous spinning wheel - is there no way of getting it running using say a mouse X Axis? Playing experience for the rotary encoder games using a dpad / Joystick is pretty poor.
Look at the pics of the build that was posted and you can see the wheel used a simple optical encoder and could
be duplicated with 3d printing easily.
Steering wheel needs to be firmly mounted but the rest not so tricky.