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I-PAC: usb or ps/2? ... or does it matter?
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on October 27, 2004, 10:42:15 am ---The problem is you have to change your thinking a little bit with the current trends - i.e. most new gamepads, joysticks, webcams, mice, trackballs, some spinners, etc. are USB plug-and-play. So the idea of a USB plug-and-play encoder makes sense to people. The idea of a PS/2 encoder and a USB keyboard or plugging the keyboard through the encoder seems foreign, whether it performs better or not.
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Exactly :)
Personally I use my IPAC in PS/2 mode, since there is no advantage for me to use USB...
Worth mentioning also tho is that I believe the new IPAC boards re-program a lot quicker in USB mode than they used to (in PS/2 or USB mode) - this might be a big advantage to those who use emulators/games without remappable keys.
Bgnome:
some people might like the keystroke repeatability feature in usb as well..
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Minwah on October 27, 2004, 10:55:19 am ---Worth mentioning also tho is that I believe the new IPAC boards re-program a lot quicker in USB mode than they used to (in PS/2 or USB mode) - this might be a big advantage to those who use emulators/games without remappable keys.
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I have not heard this before. Andy said the new WinIPAC IPD software programs in less than one second, but I thought this was regardless of interface. It is an advantage for the I-PAC VE or regular I-PAC over the mini-pac (which can't use WinIpac IPD)
Have we muddied the water sufficiently???