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have it both ways: atari 360
technabob.com - 1/13/2009
have it both ways: atari 360
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So maybe you like to play the latest and greatest (arcade) games but you don’t necessarily like the latest and greatest controllers . The answer, clearly, is to build a hybrid monster of controllers to suit your specifications. Alternately, you can wake up as Benjamin Heckendorn, but that ...
3600 Controller
benheck.com - 1/9/2009
3600 Controller
— benheck.com — OK so yesterday I had my Facebook status as saying I was “being frustrated by potentiometers” - a rather normal day for me, really. For whatever reason this prompted one of my friends to suggest I build an Xbox 360 controller inside of an ... (more) 3600 Controller

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Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing
technologizer.com - 1/20/2009
Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing
— technologizer.com — The next time you use your shiny new Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop CS4, think back to a time before time–a time before blends, morphs, heal brushes, and 10-megapixel images. A time like 1984, which, for computer graphics, was darker than the ... (more) Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing

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instructables.com - 1/7/2009
Steps: How To Make Giant Atari Joystick Lamp?
— instructables.com — I wanted to make something to enter into the Craftsman contest that would be challenging for me to make, but really cool and unique to have once it was finished. This was what I came up with. (more) Steps: How To Make Giant Atari Joystick Lamp?

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The UberReview:  Atari 360 Controller Retro Cool but a Little Awkward

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Atari 360 Controller Retro Cool but a Little Awkward
The UberReview — ... maestro Ben Heck, but it is extremely cool. He has taken an old Atari 2600 joystick, gutted it, added some extra buttons, a circuit board and the innards of a Guitar Hero controller, and turned it into a X-360 controller. Unfortunately, it can’t play 360 titles, but it can play a few Xbox Live Arcade titles, which is probably for the best, because I don’t see tiny buttons on the front being all that conducive to good gaming. [Ben Heck via HackADay, Technabob] Related posts SifuF’s portable N64, Semi-portable ...

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