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Beeeph:

I was using both mame and mame32 in windows xp.

quarterback:

Thanks for the reply.  I'm using MameWah as well and it's great, but when I had both my mouse and my trackball simultaneously hooked up under XP, the trackball would act erratically.

I never even tried both in mame because of all the wierdness in windows.  With both hooked up, the cursor would jump around whenever I moved the trackball and with every movement it would also act like I had pushed the right mouse button and open up a right-click menu of options.  So I just unplugged the mouse and the trackball worked fine in both Windows and Mame.

It just seemed like XP wasn't happy with 2 mice attached so I gave up.  But if you've got it working finr, I'll have to try it again and troubleshoot a little more.\
Thanks

ALeX K:

thanks very much to all  for the replies.

I was indeed hoping that the spinner and trackball could be usb devices. i will be running command line mame through a front end prog like mamewah or game launcher - so hopefully won't need to see windows at all!

Will take onboard the advice about downgrading the ram - i've never specced a system to be deliberately underpower...  I will also try to see some local vendors and comapre prices to happ if they are as expensive as you say - would anyone know of any suitable places to start looking in the london, UK area?

Is it silly to buy some

krick:

I don't agree with the "downgrade the ram" comment.

Windows XP is a memory hog.

ALeX K:

Hey, thanks for that link - it makes

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