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New Product: 49-Way USB Interface - The GP-Wiz49 with DRS Technology (TM)
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Hoagie_one:
I would think that a command line switch would be great, like /49A or /49B, etc etc.

I'll shut up now
SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: RandyT on March 02, 2005, 02:02:02 pm ---There isn't the wiggle room with this as some of you folks think.
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SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on March 02, 2005, 02:24:53 pm ---I would think that a command line switch would be great, like /49A or /49B, etc etc.

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RandyT will have to look into it to see if it is possible.

Well, I am a believer that anything is possible.
sWampy:

--- Quote from: RandyT on March 02, 2005, 11:58:40 am ---
--- Quote from: sWampy on March 02, 2005, 11:28:17 am ---What would have been super nice is if the patterns could be updated in the driver, and if the modes could have been switched in software.

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If this is of interest to you, take urebelscum's advice and use the software approach to develop your own solutions.  This product was not designed for you, rather the person that just wants things to work without fiddling with stuff that might confuse the hooey out of them. :)

RandyT



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A controller for a 49 way joystick with the ability to emulate other joysticks is a great idea.  I just know none of the people who play on my cabinets want to have to think oh gee, pac-man used a 4 way, let's see  I have to hold down the purple button while hitting the red button.  Then they switch to something like stargate they aren't going to know to hold down the purple button while pressing the green button.  Having to push the buttons is hookey as ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  A way to set the hardware in software would be a thousand times better.   I understand you most likely can't do this with out a driver for the device and you want to stick to a HID device that requires no driver, but why?   Macs make less than 5% of the market place and less than that of the emulation market place, and surely nobody is going to want to hook this up to their xbox/dreamcast/ipaq so why stick with HID.   I guess there is a small linux market, but release the specs and someone will write a driver for that.   A windows utility that let people swap layouts would be something anyone could understand, and a command line program or api would then let frontends change the sticks on the fly where the end user wouldn't have to do anything at all.

While it sounds like a neat idea to me, I most likely won't purchase it, cause I don't want my wife calling me at work complaining that pacman won't let her go left and right cause I was playing stargate last night and forgot to reset it. 
SirPoonga:

--- Quote ---BTW, hows that controls.dat project coming that you guys started years ago?
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