Using Sega Controllers on an Apple II
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Today we're going to take a break from complicated projects, and just have some fun by plugging the wrong controllers into an Apple IIGS.
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🍎 AppleSqueezer - www.applesquee...
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#Apple #IIGS #Appril2
2:50 infocard!
Also, in a world of FPGAs and Raspberry Pi -based hacks, its almost refreshing to see a project based around the simple PIC. Simple shenanigans
Yes, more shenanigans
We are number 1!
Evil shenanigans!
"Tears" for just a buck!!
Mashing together technology sounds like something Bender Bending Rodríguez would use as a euphemism.
So nice they used a simple PIC for a simple application
I use what it takes to get the job done, no overhead / overkill ...
Let me just say I appreciate how well you mic the controller and keyboards so we can hear each click and press. It’s actually kinda relaxing 😂
6 button sega controller was my fave.
That cluttered workbench really hits home. 😬
Fun video and very cool stealth GS.
Dargnibbit! I just got the Silpheed soundtrack out of my head a couple days ago.
"Flying Through Normal Space" is the title of that specific track, I believe. It is so bouncy for an awful lotta folks shootin' you up.
Nice job on that Super Mario keyboard/SEGA controller combo!
I've gotta be the last living human being who doesn't like joypads. Give me a joystick every time.
Exactly. Especially analog sticks like the CoCo and Apple 2 demand. An analog stick can fake pushbuttons much better than any button controller can fake analog, intervening microcontrollers notwithstanding.
Silpheed! We had a more compact two square button joystick on our IIgs.
toward the end of the Atari 130XE being any kind of sustainable home computer by the end of the 90s, when finding working joysticks became impossible or too expensive, i would use a Sega Genesis controller.
I remember as a kid bringing an Atari Joystick to school to plug into the Apple //c there. It had the same 9-pin plug, so I was sure it would work.
Always liked that they worked on C64. Never needed to seek out some obscure other controller like some other computers.
"I think I may have found the worst possible way to play Super Mario."
No. Super Mario Bros. Special on the NEC PC-8801 is the worst way.
I love the dancing man.
7:25 ❤❤❤ wiggle jiggle wiggle jiggle. I’m going to make that into a looping gif and watch it for HOURS!
Yes, a second Apple ][ video to catalog today.
"Can't... stop... dancing!" 🕺💯
I love watching video's about old mac's while watching them on a macbook with an m2 chip
I see an Ultimate II+ in the project box. What a cool gadget ^_^
Also, a lovely video ^_^
The music in this Super Mario Bros. port is a variation of "Thing On A Spring" from C64 by Rob Hubbard. There it's a cult classic track :)
Watching this after spending 38 hours trying to get openBSD on my G4 powermac…is exactly what i needed
G4 macs are great, but they hate Linux being run on them unless your name is Sean and you run a channel called Action Retro 😂😂
He has some sort of magic tool that allows him to install Linux on every Mac ever made!
What a cool device!
Man and I thought my desk was a mess lol. been cleaning/restoreing multiple PlayStation controllers, a original PS controller (the no analog stick one), a pair of psOne controllers, and a thrift find ps3 one.
I just received mine yesterday. Haven't had time to play with it yet, but I do remember using the previous version. It's nice to have options, but I still prefer a joystick over a game pad. I originally played my games on a Gravis joystick back in the day
I hope you also have a stereo card for your GS, that makes playing IIGS games like Silpheed a lot more enjoyable.
It's actually interesting that we pretty much did the same thing to our clear case GS, or as I call it my Not So Stealthy GS. The only thing I tried that I got from your videos was that clear monitor shelf.
Hocus pocus can't stop dancing to the monster mash
“Today’s video is brought to you…BY ME!”
Tears start at just a buck...
haha! Thanks for all the great videos!
Does the Genesis controller input mean you could use an Atari 2600 controller on it? If so that's certainly a roundabout way to use a more contemporary controller on the Apple II 😅
Yes, you can. The drawback is that the Atari Joystick only has one button. But for Apple II games which need only one button it just works fine
IIRC the GS also has the motherboard DIN connector for the older big metal box joysticks. So instead of going forward and using later console game pads, you could also go back in time to the 70s/early 80s with your GS! ☺ With all the ports, slots, ADB, and other connectors, the GS is easily the most expandable computer Apple ever made.
That music is from c64 game thing on a spring
Yoooo Silpheed mentioned!!
This was so cool Tkz!
AR: SiLpHeEd HaS tHe BeSt SoUnDtRaCk.
The entire SEGA catalogue: Am I a joke to you?
10:32 That's a version of the music from Thing on a Spring (C64)!
Weird to hear it on an Apple II. Pretending to be a NES. 😅
Totally normal computing!
Totally normal gaming!
That PIC microcontroller has quite a bit of punch to it too.
The Best sound track is actually Silpheed on the PC MT-32 or LAPC-1
That paperboy conversion looks and sounds very similar to the c64 version.
Your iigs needs a stereo card! To enjoy that Silpheed music and all the others. A Litesound or Darksound are pretty affordable...
Go for the Darksound ... hehe
I recently bought a cheap USB controller to play Mars Rising on my G3 iBook and yes, a controller is soooo much better than the keyboard.
I want to chip in to support this sponsor less video.
I look forward to VCF low earth orbit some day.
Great video! Please, give some more Apple IIgs goodies!!!
I get that the IIgs is a little too obscure for good video title SEO, but that was what made me click it before it was changed.
I'm setting up an Apple 2GS system (and that AppleSqueezer card is unobtanium,near as I can tell), but considering this. That those old Apple analog joysticks were never that great and I do have a bunchy of PS1/2 gamepads lying around.
daaaaaaaang....i got mine not long ago before the ps1 support....
Nice machine
you must have never played the official nec pc98 port of super mario bros "deluxe"
that "wonderful" sylpheed soundtrack made me fire up my Sega CD just to hear it the way it was meant to sound. The IIgs just doesn't have good sound with that game. the silly thing is the CD doesn't even use rebook audio, it uses FM synth!
I don't know. I would like to see more grand hand gestures.😉
segapple!?
Modern Controllers for Apple II.
New idea: repurposing a Sega Genesis motherboard as the base for a 68k hackintosh.
Personally, I think the OG fat XBOX controller is the best controller ever made, closely followed by the N64 controller with a Gamecube style stick, but I'm weird.
When Sean said "tiers start at just a buck", I thought he said "tears"
He will make you cry for just a dollar!
You should''ve fired up some Broderbund titles to test it out with, like Choplifter, Wings of Fury, Karateka, etc.
They do work ... ^^
Is that a copy of Wolfenstein 3D on the GBA I see? :D Nice
I also see what looks like a GBA shell! Building a custom GBA?
I didn't get a computer until after i was out of school in 2000 i ordered a windows 98 Se from Gateway a 500mhz esential pc with a celeron and 64 mb of ram
What about for a traditional early Pentium 2 PC? Is there an adapter made for those as well? I was trying to go through that website that you linked to for this adapter but not sure if I'm just missing it or if there's nothing there?
Maybe they can also control submarines?
lmao that's some crazy ass noise, do you live in like a nuclear reactor or something? heheheh
Oh crap, I forgot it was #Appleril. Of course, every video you do is qualifies for #Appleril.
0:02 it's already may here
I was always too hard on those analog controllers, they didn't last very long.
Cool
nes and snes controllers are simpler to interface, as they're just an 8-bit parallel to serial shift register and two of them cascaded, respectively. I don't remember but I think the mastersystem controller was similarly simplistic. somebody let me know about the later if you remember.
The Sega controllers are even easier, im fact the are using one more control line to check the additional buttons, compared to the standard 9pin Atari Joysticks. The PS controllers are quite a bit more advanced using the SPI protocol
4:00 if it doesn't work with digital inputs, how come you're able to use the dpad on the genesis controller, the snes controller and the ps2 controller? I'm a little confused.
It works with D-pad and Thumbstick on the PS controller, you can use START to switch between them
@Byte Booster That makes sense. When Sean said it didn't work with digital inputs, it seemed wrong.
Just casually using iMovie to edit my YT video while I watch my Sunday morning cartoons (this video)
Fun fact, all the videos on my channel were made using iMovie on a Powerbook G4 lol
👍👍👍
iMovie is user-friendly, free, good enough, and great on old Macs too!
I’m editing it on a 2015 iMac and I lost 2 HOURS OF FOOTAGE due to corruption😡😡
I’m in the process of using VLC to try and repair the file, it will take hours 🤦♂️
Man I want same keyboard and computers... Suggest me link?
The only game controller I think is better than the Sega Genesis one is the Sega Saturn one.
How do you get ahold of ByteBooster? I have an idea for creating something for IIgs.
Here I am ^^
NES controller = GOAT ... 2nd place.. gamecube
Eu gostaria de ver o Power Mac 5500, ou então o LC I II III, diferenciar um pouco o conteúdo
Is this possible for Macintosh?
Come mai non hai provato Maincraft ?🤣
You did not used the best joysticks of all times: *The Atari 2600 Joystick* 🤣 🤣 I know most ppl hate that joystick, but growing up in the Atari era, that’s the one I’m most comfortable with! I did built an Atari adapter for my IIe out of a publicly available PCB on PCB Way.
Partly gamepad and keyboard? Phh... There is a Korean guy who got a world record in Mario this way.
I love your videos...but...you keep listing links that either do not work or the product is constantly listed as out of stock as was the case with the Apple Squeezer.
Don't you check these links out to see if products are available BEFORE you post the link ?
Or am I too old school and expecting too much ?
I think not.
I have an Apple ][ E, GS, C, + and an integer based Apple ][ and would like to buy products but they always seem to be out of stock.
The link for the ByteBuster worked and is in stock with some very interesting retro games available in my quick look.
lately when I've covered projects like this, I've been messaging the creators before hand to give them a head's up they might see more orders.
Blasphemy! 9:46
I can't believe he called the L button "L2" 😭
I don't work here
Nintappleis.
Oh sick I'm early
Why can’t Mario work with a controller.
ok
Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
Cool