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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Nefesis on June 09, 2004, 10:46:48 pm ---do you need a trackball if you're going to use a DOS os and not planning on playing golden tee golf? or any other type of mouse?

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DOS supports mice/trackballs - Questions -

Does your DOS frontend require or work better with a mouse?

Do you plan on playing ANY trackball games (World Class Bowling, CABAL, Centipede, Golf, Mini-Golf, maybe Arkanoid, Missile Command), etc.)?

If both answer are NO, then you don't need one, if either is YES, then you do.

Nefesis:

i haven't planned on playing those games, but maybe i'll leave room on my cp for a trackball for later.

krick:

Hi,  sorry to be dragging this thread back up but I found it in a search and was wondering about this idea of "game buttons" vs "mouse buttons".

Is it possible to have the top three buttons act like mouse buttons when in windows and game buttons while in MAME?

You can't really wire one button to two inputs at the same time, can you?  i.e.  wire the first button to the I-PAC player 1 button 1 input AND also wire it to the OptiPac left mouse button input.   Whenever you press the button, the're both activated.

The bottom line is that I'd rather not have dedicated mouse buttons on my control panel if I don't have to.


Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: krick on June 25, 2004, 04:05:15 pm ---Is it possible to have the top three buttons act like mouse buttons when in windows and game buttons while in MAME?

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Sure . . . maybe, depends . . . read on.

--- Quote ---You can't really wire one button to two inputs at the same time, can you?  i.e.  wire the first button to the I-PAC player 1 button 1 input AND also wire it to the OptiPac left mouse button input.   Whenever you press the button, the're both activated.

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Actually, I'm not sure you can't but you would get both signals sent and that probably isn't good.

What you can do is - MAME accepts mouse button inputs just fine - so connect your buttons up as mouse buttons and map the inputs in MAME to mouse button 0, mouse button 1, and mouse button 2.  The drawback to this is if you use any other emulators/games that don't recognize mouse buttons or allow reassigning of them, you can't use those buttons with them.

Tahnok:

I believe you can hook up two controls to one button (I see no reason why not). However, I recommend not using the player 1 and 2 buttons. They are not normally in an easy place to use and they are not the same button to MAME.

If you are using the default MAME buttons map then player buttons one, two and three are the same as the three mouse clicks. I think you could even not hook the buttons up to the keyboard portion and just use the mouse clicks to play games. Though, I don't use an I-Pac, so you should probably confirm with someone who knows more than me.

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