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| JB:
--- Quote from: SeaMonkey on January 10, 2005, 05:17:02 pm ---[EDIT] You know what...that is for 8 way joysticks only. It wouldn't convert the trackball while it was in trackball mode. (These things had a switch that would let you put it in 8-way analog joystick or trackball mode.) The diff would be that the trackball not only gives data on direction, but also speed, where a joystick just gives data in reguard to direction. Foiled again.... [END EDIT] --- End quote --- Except that that only applies to the Atari-brand trackball. Which wasn't supported in trackball mode anyways. The Wico ONLY has stick emulation mode. |
| SeaMonkey:
--- Quote ---The Wico ONLY has stick emulation mode. --- End quote --- I am not sure I follow. Is that, "The Wico is the only trackball with stick emulation mode" or "The Wico trackball only has a single mode, which is stick emulation" ? Either way, the Atari-to-USB adapter would not send the proper data to make a trackball work like a trackball. Looks to me from the diagrams on the web that it has metal bearings, and optical encoders, inside the case, that I could just wire straight into an Opti-Pac. |
| sac01:
I did this with a colevovision trackball a few years ago.. that ball is still in operation on one of my cabs... I just did the same mouse hack you see all over the place here, and wired it to the optics on the colecovision (wico) trackball...Works perfectly sac |
| JB:
--- Quote from: SeaMonkey on January 11, 2005, 01:24:16 pm --- --- Quote ---The Wico ONLY has stick emulation mode. --- End quote --- I am not sure I follow. Is that, "The Wico is the only trackball with stick emulation mode" or "The Wico trackball only has a single mode, which is stick emulation" ? Either way, the Atari-to-USB adapter would not send the proper data to make a trackball work like a trackball. --- End quote --- The second. I own one, and it lacks the trackball mode of the Atari-designed trackball. --- Quote ---Looks to me from the diagrams on the web that it has metal bearings, and optical encoders, inside the case, that I could just wire straight into an Opti-Pac. --- End quote --- *kicks self* I've been toying with the idea of adapting mine for ages. Why didn't I ever think of that? Yah, you're dead on with the construction. As a side note, the fire button is leaf-switch. |
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