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Keyboard and Mouse controls on your driving cabinet?
Fursphere:
As much as we'd like our front end programs and key mappings to cover everything, sooner or later you're going to have to deal with Windows, or a menu, or something (the menu's in Burnout Paradise are worst I've seen so far. game is great, menu's are horrible).
On the driving cabinet, I don't really have room for it. I'm using a wired mini-keyboard and trackball that I put in my lap when I have to deal with it, then set them on top of the computer case while I'm driving.
Most of the newer PC games require keyboard / mouse interaction at some point. (username / password, clicking some stupid button that doesn't have a gamepad input option, etc).
How do you guys deal with this? On my upright MAME cabinet, I've got a keyboard / mouse drawer that rolls out, very easy, almost invisible.
BadMouth:
So far, I just don't play the games that require them.
Occasionally, I'll plug in a wireless keyboard mouse combo, but nothing permanent.
I tried a 2.4Ghz Lenovo mini keyboard/mouse, but it doesn't work unless I unplug all the other 2.4Ghz devices in the area. :angry:
Not recommended!
drventure:
Grab one of these. You won't be sad. Great battery life, works seemlessly. Includes the touchpad for mouse stuff (it's a touchpad, but hey, you won't be programming on the thing right?). For major surgery, i remote into my cab wirelessly.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-touch-keyboard-k400r?crid=26
Fursphere:
2.4ghz is officially on my sh!t list. I've got some high end Motorola baby monitors in my house - they're only on when the kids are sleeping. When the camera in my 1 year old's room turns on (the monitor rotates between the two cameras every 15 seconds or something) it straight up DESTROYS everything else in the house using 2.4ghz.
I actually had a fancy wireless card that showed the signal in wave form with a utility, I was watching the monitor flip back and forth between cameras, and the signal on my wifi go from 100% - 0%. It was sad. That's the day I ran a 100ft RJ45 cable to my front room to ditch the wifi.
5ghz is A LOT better - for now.... unfortunately I've still got crap on 2.4ghz, so I'm stuck there. In a few years 5ghz will be the norm, and it'll get flooded too. Then they'll be something new to replace it, and we'll start all over... /sigh
But ya, it sounds like you've got the same problems I do with the keyboard situation. :)
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Fursphere on September 09, 2013, 03:29:24 pm ---2.4ghz is officially on my sh!t list. I've got some high end Motorola baby monitors in my house - they're only on when the kids are sleeping. When the camera in my 1 year old's room turns on (the monitor rotates between the two cameras every 15 seconds or something) it straight up DESTROYS everything else in the house using 2.4ghz.
I actually had a fancy wireless card that showed the signal in wave form with a utility, I was watching the monitor flip back and forth between cameras, and the signal on my wifi go from 100% - 0%. It was sad. That's the day I ran a 100ft RJ45 cable to my front room to ditch the wifi.
5ghz is A LOT better - for now.... unfortunately I've still got crap on 2.4ghz, so I'm stuck there. In a few years 5ghz will be the norm, and it'll get flooded too. Then they'll be something new to replace it, and we'll start all over... /sigh
But ya, it sounds like you've got the same problems I do with the keyboard situation. :)
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Funny thing is that the full size wireless keyboard and mouse that I use are also 2.4Ghz, but they work just fine.
Perhaps it's a brand/protocol thing. It works on my standup cab if I unplug a nearby Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse.
But it also refuses to work on my jukebox which is right next to a 2.4Ghz router.
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