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another trackball/spinner question
« on: February 16, 2004, 10:12:24 am »
I have a ps2 trackball and a ps2 spinner (mouse hack).  Right now, when I want to play Tempest I have to climb into my cabinet, unhook the trackball, and plug in the spinner.  Kind of awkward.

My question is this:  Can I tie the cable coming out of the mouse hacked spinner into the trackball's cable?  They would then be hooked up simultaneously, like having two joysticks wired together.  Are the wires in those cables too dainty to mess with?  Does someone sell an inexpensive splitter type cable that would do this?  Or is the solution to hack another mouse this time using a usb mouse?

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Re:another trackball/spinner question
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2004, 03:33:52 pm »
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Re:another trackball/spinner question
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2004, 03:44:07 pm »
Get an Opti-PAC.

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Re:another trackball/spinner question
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2004, 07:06:07 pm »
You could use your mouse hack, and get rid of the trackballs interface, then use Oscars DPDT switch idea to interface both trackball & spinner to the one mouse hack.  See how here: http://www.oscarcontrols.com/DPDTswitch.shtml

Since you effectively already have an interface (or 2) I wouldn't get an Opti-Pac personally.

Alternatively, you could try a PS/2 > USB convertor for one of them, so you can just plug both in at once.  They would interfere with each other if both used at once tho.  Also, I bought such a convertor once (for my PS/2 mouse hack) and it plain didn't work :(