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Flinkly:
hmmm...first i was happy to hear that all the minipacs support trackball and that the more expensive one just has a harness.  so if someone does find out the difference from writing andy, can you include the answer here? i'd hate to swamp him with ten e-mails all of the same question...or if he wants to step out and answer our questions right here, that would also be appreciated.  maybe put ", ANDY?" at the end of the thread title.
sWampy:
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    More options    11/11/04
Well, the connections are different for the Happ trackball and the Ultimarc one. But the differences are shown in the table on the Opti-PAC page which might help.

Luckily at the moment the Mini-PAC will support trackball as well, if sold as a switch-only version, this will not be the case when a new version comes out shortly.

Andy
Rendour:
I think I'm going to be repeating swampy, but let's see if I can make this clear for everyone. I have ordered the mini-pac without the harness and e-mailed Andy at Ultimarc asking him if I can still use an arcade style trackball and run it through the mini-pac. He said all mini-pac boards shipped have the trackball interface enabled so that should work fine. Hope this helps everyone struggling with the same decision that I was.
sWampy:

--- Quote from: Rendour on February 15, 2005, 01:13:05 am ---I think I'm going to be repeating swampy, but let's see if I can make this clear for everyone. I have ordered the mini-pac without the harness and e-mailed Andy at Ultimarc asking him if I can still use an arcade style trackball and run it through the mini-pac. He said all mini-pac boards shipped have the trackball interface enabled so that should work fine. Hope this helps everyone struggling with the same decision that I was.

--- End quote ---

Cool, did he say if that was going to change in the future?  Cause on 11/04/04 he said it was, let's hope he changed his mind. ;-)
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: sWampy on February 15, 2005, 09:12:37 am ---
--- Quote from: Rendour on February 15, 2005, 01:13:05 am ---I think I'm going to be repeating swampy, but let's see if I can make this clear for everyone. I have ordered the mini-pac without the harness and e-mailed Andy at Ultimarc asking him if I can still use an arcade style trackball and run it through the mini-pac. He said all mini-pac boards shipped have the trackball interface enabled so that should work fine. Hope this helps everyone struggling with the same decision that I was.

--- End quote ---

Cool, did he say if that was going to change in the future?  Cause on 11/04/04 he said it was, let's hope he changed his mind. ;-)

--- End quote ---
Read his reply in his E-mail to you (Reply #6)

"Luckily at the moment the Mini-PAC will support trackball as well, if sold as a switch-only version, this will not be the case when a new version comes out shortly."

So, yes, it will change in the future, and no, he didn't change his mind.
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