For five buttons and a spinner I think your options are:
1. Mini-pac or other interface
2. 5 button mouse hack
3. "regular" mouse hack and keyboard hack
4. Plugging tornado in via PS/2 and keyboard hack
1. You've stated that you don't want to use the Mini-pac.
2. I don't know if the 5 button mouse hack will work. Try it and see if it works.
3. No point in hacking the mouse if you can already connect the spinner to the PC.
4. May be the route to go. You already have the Tornado and simply need to hack a keyboard for five buttons. Shouldn't run into ghosting for five buttons.
You can say that you have been clear in your previous posts, but a few people have commented that you haven't. You say:
I said 5 buttons and a spinner. 5 buttons and a spinner. 5 buttons and a spinner...
And I'm talking about game play buttons.(Not that any of this was supposed to be about my specific project).
Admin and other functions will be relegated to the keyboard.
My list gets you 5 buttons and a spinner. No matter how many times you say it, my list will work. It may not be everything that can be done or the right thing for you so I'm just throwing them out there.
HOWEVER.... in reading your other posts, you say you want:
I have the PS/2 connection on my Tornado. And the MiniPAC would be for games with more controls(joystick or more than three buttons) when not playing the spinner games.
I was just trying to figure out a way to get all that while only having to use a single connection from the control panel, which would be the USB connector from the MiniPAC.
If this is relative information, it would have been helpful for you to say that too. I don't know if it still applies or not. People want to help but when they say it's not clear or ask for more info, I would take that as a sign that it isn't clear to everyone and clearly stating all of your needs and parameters in one list will help eliminate people suggesting stuff that you don't want to do. It's your call but it may help everyone help you better.
