@@TheOriginalChazno5 thanks! Glad u enjoyed it.

@@anjinmiura6708 the button press seems to override the direction so button press + direction returns 66 on my test setup.

@@Spriteworx I wonder if there is a way to overcome that. I don't know exactly how the device works. But the diodes for pins 2 and 3 seem designed to override anything "L/R" and basically activate both at once. So if you were using a dpad instead of a joystick, you could simulate a fire button sort of...depending on the dpad. So there's nothing analog about it. It's just Carrier Detect and Rx lines only. probably the best that can be done. Still, I wonder what sort of voodoo can be done with the cassette. Probably nothing as simple as a peek/poke. In fact, if you left the UpRight,DownLeft mode, you would probably find two of the "diagonals" would cause a "fire button" to be read. I think what's really needed is a shift register which is something you can bring to the really smart electronic guys in the discord. Basically, a shift register would receive a set of bits in series. If we wanted to record up, down, left, right, B1, B2 (for example) each button press would result in a bit being set. So, for example UP + FIRE(1) might look like 10001000 or a DOWN + FIRE(2) might look like 01000100 and UP+RIGHT + B1 (jump diagonally) might look like 10011000. This would require some tiny IC coded to read the state of these switches and then encode that state (on change) into a shift register which then sends that register's contents over to the serial port. On the MC10 side, it would take more than a "peek" to read that, of course. So maybe more trouble than it's worth, but this is how Nintendo made its revolutionary controllers. Instead of having a wire for each button, they used shift registers and a serial type of connection. But since the MC10 doesn't have a real serial port, it would have to poll constantly like it does for the keyboard.

@@anjinmiura6708 if you mean for ordering the T.H.E.M. game you can message me directly in facebook or send me a message through the contact page of the spriteworx website.

@@cdoty no plans to do so.

@@jimm3205 yeas MCX extended BASIC.

@@brendandonahe Hey Brendan. Not a problem. I definitely appreciate being able to use a real keyboard on the MC-10 :)

@@TheOriginalChazno5 awesome. I never learned much assembly language back in the day but it’s pretty fun.

@@Spriteworx I never used Assembly language either, just tried out a little Machine code which for me was like a black art back in the day lol, and loads of Basic. I once wrote quite a long game all in Basic but knowing some Machine code would have definitely helped 👍

@@sragga yeah it’s pretty limited in its base configuration and the graphics capabilities are severely crippled.

@@jamesbateman521 for the gameplay? It’s just running from the Next connected to my computer through an hdmi capture device.

@@Spriteworx interesting. I’ll play about the the tv output and see if I can change anything. Mine is a 48” TV and it looks a little stretched. Although, could be me 😊

@@TheShadman47 haha thanks. 😊

@@jamesbateman521 I don’t actually play games much but I imagine it would be Kempston.

@@TheShadman47 yes sir 🙂

@@MacSociety yep the world is waiting for you to save us from being probed.

@@Spriteworx lol

@@MacSociety never big enough 🤣

@@Spriteworx lol . My wife won’t let me get bigger than 40”. I am living in hell here!

@@MacSociety lol you poor devil.

@@RichardCyberPunk thanks very much. The micro expander really improves the capability of the Aquarius.

@@Dandema awesome. Glad to hear it.

@@TheOriginalChazno5 it’s a great stick.

@@robm8809 the stick action seems technically the same between the Elmer stick and the arcadeR but to me the Elmer seems much tighter probably due to the octagonal restrictor plate even though the travel is probably the same.

@@Spriteworx Cheers. :)

or 6 buttons, i can think of one that uses them :)

@@whatsnext128 ah thanks. I guess I’ll have to add that to my collection at some point 😊

@@theflashmanuk which one?

@@Spriteworx Head over Heels

​@theflashmanuk I want to make my own. I'm OK at building stuff but can't design the circuit I'd need.

@@andrewfield176 yeah this one is awesome.

Nice

@@kneehighnelly4355 it was :). Except the matcha flavour not my favorite.

@@intellivisiongamer haha thanks.

Thanks for reviewing our little game. (I guess you can see it was our first try on the Next!) Glad you enjoyed it. I think we improved with our follow-up Sect (TJ reviewed it.)

@@robertgrace6182 yeah I had fun playing it. I’ll take a look for TJ’s Sect video.

Beware the language isn’t safe for work! Funny you mentioned Game of Life… the cells evolve. 😁

That TJ, he gets everywhere 😂

@@gurujoe75 lol.

@@AlexEvans1 ah thanks!

@@spinnetti yep that’s true. It’s not needed for the Next. It’s just for fun or if you prefer to load games from an external SD card with the retro tape loading experience instead of copying games direct to the internal SD card in the Next. Just another cool gadget for us to play with with a mini-Next design.

It can depend if you don't have an accelerated it won't have a pi which is needed for tzx. I bought one as I also have a +3 and 48k. The thing I really like is the percentage on it as well as the ability to pause the tape, which you can't do with the next. I used to load cassette 50 games. The only thing I wish if it was possible was to go to a specific block so you could go straight to a known block in a multi game tzx file. The cassette would just be needed for a +2. . My next has a conbo of sna, tap and tzx where as my SD card for the next duino I've just set up with tzx and tap

@@RichNoons awesome. Thanks for the info. Not sure about the block thing. There is a BLK indicator on the display. Maybe that’s what it’s for.

@@Spriteworx doesnt it have a tape emulation feature for that retro loading on tap files from sd card?

@@kissinuk awesome. I haven’t actually tried it with a multi load game, so I’m not sure if you need to connect the remote cable into the small port on the back in order to make that work or not. You could maybe reach out to Ricky at you make robots. There is also a you make robots KZbin channel video that shows the multi load process kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4mQm5R7ptKrjZYsi=CR6Uv_NFPyTKufI4

@@Spriteworx thanks for the info. And thanks also for putting time into making the videos, much appreciated!

@@kissinuk my pleasure. Glad you’re enjoying them.

@@rickyelqasem awesome product. We finally have a great controller for the Aquarius. Love the clicky buttons and the blue LED lights.

Your welcome.

@@MacSociety 😮