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Flinkly:
sorry, i've got to say this...

not to poopoo on anyone, but randy is providing us with this product.
RandyT:

--- Quote from: sWampy on March 02, 2005, 04:04:20 pm ---
Yes, plugging something in and needing no drivers is nice, but this isn't a jump drive, you will take from machine to machine, this is a controller you are going to put in an arcade cabinet once and leave there, loading a driver once is trivial.   


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This is exactly the opposite from the sentiments I have been hearing.  One of the major concerns people have had is whether they can take a control panel they build based around one of these interfaces to a friends house and plug it in and play without a lot of hassle.  i.e. Thumbdrive like transportability. 

And speaking of which, a client brought a thumbdrive into our offices a short time ago that worked great on his laptop and said it was supposed to be "plug and go".  We spent half the day trying it on a half dozen systems, and couldn't get it to work.

Saying something and making it so are two different things and with USB, it's just not as simple as it sounds because of the number of variables involved.  The examples you give on the behaviour of other devices fail to take into consideration the 12 people that worked for 3 months straight developing firmware and supporting software, or the potential market of millions for the device to pay for it.

So yes, lots of things would be nice.  How many are willing to fund the development of them?  Far less than wish to have a say in the products design, I'm sure.

RandyT

BTW, Thank you Flinkly for the words of support.  I'm sure there are a lot of folks like you out there that feel the same way, but don't want to get involved in the "trial by fire" that all new developments go through on the board.  I've been through a few of them and now that the scar tissue is starting to build up I can't feel it much any more  :)


dema:
Randy, I'm with Flinkly. I'm just happy you're offering a product like this. I'm not knowledgable in these sorts of things, nor am I that adept in cabinet building, so this is a great benefit to me. For a guy who was going to go with an 8 way and a 4 way and hope for the best, I'm just thrilled to hear that this great alternative is available. The other stuff people want would just be a bonus, and there is a lot of time in the future for people to build upon this and make it happen. Until that time, just know that I (and others like me) are very excited about the product and I'll be buying two of them.
Hoagie_one:

--- Quote from: RandyT on March 02, 2005, 04:53:51 pm ---This is exactly the opposite from the sentiments I have been hearing.
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1UP:
For everyone asking to have this redesigned to have software mode switching--sounds like a good BYO project to me.  Surely one of you can write this into an FE, and rig up a simple parallel port interface that would consist of a few resistors and transistors.  The FE sends a commandline to the parallel port when a certain game is run, the board makes the connection to send a button press to Randy's encoder, and you're done.

BTW, it would be great if Randy could make something like this, but I think it should be an addon rather than standard.  I'm sure lots of people would rather keep it cheap and push the buttons themselves.  If you look at all the complicated routes people will go to avoid spending $30-$40 for a good spinner, you'll see what I mean.
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