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BAD-ASS trackball...
NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: Trimoor on January 24, 2005, 06:46:32 pm ---Are you using it on a reflective surface? Even varnished wood can really screw up the sensor.
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Also, most of the manuals I've seen recommend a solid color mouse pad, as opposed to one with a picture on it.
Apparently the picture can mess with the optics, and cause motion like you described.
I've got a really old Microsoft Explorer 1.1, on a black mouse pad, and don't EVER have any problems with it.
RayB:
Weird. I always though it NEEDED a picture or texture so it "sees a difference".
Trimoor:
Actually, most manuals reccomend testing it on a plain sheet of paper if you have problems. Even that has enough contrast.
It's old, and mice are cheap, so you might want to just buy a new one. (<--Sorry for that capitalist way of thinking.)
gudis:
One of these laser mice might do the trick...
http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/logitechmx1000/
They're supposed to be much more accurate and less sensitive about surface than LED optical units.
Unfortunately, they're cordless and pretty expensive.
RandyT:
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--- Quote from: brandon on January 21, 2005, 03:35:43 am ---http://www.clana3d.com/html/mods/PXLmod_logitech/PXLmod_logitech1.htm
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any FPS player that uses that, does and will get owned constantly.. that thing is a JOKE for fps gaming..
but yeah, for a mame machine, could work out "well"
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Heh, the PantherXL was awesome! It had a bad habit of always blowing the optical sensors in one direction or another. I have two of them with the same affliction.
I used to play FPS games with it all the time and always came in at the top 3 (even won once in a while). So that tells me that I must have done better with it than more than a few KB/mouse players.
But they stopped making them and driver support was vile, so I replaced it with a Betson trackball and an MS Sidewinder FF2.
You don't think I designed those replacement Betson encoder wheels just for use with old arcade games do you? ;)
RandyT