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Posted By
MMS
on 2016-08-06
16:42:22
 |  Re: Photos of CommVEx v12 2016
Nice photos!
And so many nice HW! Some of them looks very interesting. What is that unijoystickle stuff there?
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2016-08-07
12:49:25
| Re: Photos of CommVEx v12 2016
The Unijoysticle consists of hardware and software. The hardware is an adapter board that lets a iOS mobile phone communicate to the C64 via Bluetooth. An application on the phone makes it act like a joystick pad for the C64. Also by using the motion-sensing features of the phone, you can control the C64. Thus, you can attach the phone to the pedals of a real unicycle and play the Uni Game.
The Uni Games is the software portion which runs on the C64. It is a one or two-player game. You can use one or two joysticks, or you can use one or two unicycles to play the game! Uni Games can be found at
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=149743&rss
Still in Las Vegas,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
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Posted By
MMS
on 2016-08-07
19:37:45
| Re: Photos of CommVEx v12 2016
Hi Robert,
Thank you for the links and the description. Due to some unknown reasons my google search on that name gave no result. So the links provided gave a lot of new information. (small correction: if does not use the slow bluetooth, but the way faster wifi protocol)
Wow, that's something really made by a genius. The sophisticated fixation of the iPhone to a bicycle (unicycle) pedal with a Duck Tape sounds crazy too.
Two comments/ideas:
-The iPhone "sensor" cost way more than a used uni/bi cycle. Too bad they did not develop it to an old Symbian smartphone, could be bough dirt cheap now, they have very similar sensors and able to create hotspot too (like my old E66, or E52, X7, E7, C7, 701). The it could be the part of the full project order, not like an iPhone 
-A separate external unicycle simulating HW/device could be developped to this function, a pedal holder (with no wheel, just axis, the pedal and a triangle holding the whole sutt above the table). It may use a modified pedal utilizing a mobile holder, like you can see in the cars or a slot for the phone with a click locking mechanism.
I quickly checked the circuit diagram, and it seems fully compatible with the Plus/4 joysick port, as not using the POTX and POTY lines (5,9) and cannot overload the +5V line (7) as it does not use it at all.
So no TED harm could be suspected.
Could be an interesting project to convert the PRG that is just reading the proper signals from the two joystick control ports, as no HW change required on Unijoysticle, 100% compatible with Plussy (after using a completely standard joystick adapter)
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2016-08-08
18:39:18
| Re: Photos of CommVEx v12 2016
MMS wrote:
> (small correction: if does not use the slow bluetooth, but the way faster wifi protocol)
Oh, thanks. My mistake.
> Wow, that's something really made by a genius. The sophisticated fixation of the iPhone to
> a bicycle (unicycle) pedal with a Duck Tape sounds crazy too.
Yeah, very ghetto.
> The iPhone "sensor" cost way more than a used uni/bi cycle. Too bad they did not develop
> it to an old Symbian smartphone...
I will pass your message onto Ricardo. I know that he's working on an Android version of the app.
> Could be an interesting project to convert the PRG that is just reading the proper signals
> from the two joystick control ports, as no HW change required on Unijoysticle, 100%
> compatible with Plussy (after using a completely standard joystick adapter)
I was thinking of that same idea!
Writing from Las Vegas,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
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