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This may be a silly question, but I've been looking around the forums and I've found a few posts where people have had trouble with their USB - PS/2 interfaced trackball in DOS. Has anyone else had this problem?
I just want to know because I was thinking about getting one of these balls, but I could just as easily save a few bucks and do the hack if it will work better.
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just get a PS2 version, if you gonna stay in DOS.
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Right, I would use the PS/2 connector on the trackball since DOS doesn't seem to have any USB support. Someone was saything that the trackball slowed gameplay in some of their games.
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evyone probably have different fee of speed in trackball games, thats why MAME has a SENSITIVITY settings you can adjust to your liking..
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http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,33228.0.html
I'm pretty sure the problems I've read about go beyond the sensitivity options. The above link is an example.
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I can't speak for HAPPS but I can for the Betson/Imperial 3" PS2 trackball. I never had problems with under pure DOS, CTMOUSE.EXE, Advmame. All trackball games run smoothly in my 3.0 cpu system, even on my old setup 1.9 Intel ROMBUS System.
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Well that's pretty reassuring. Thanks for the input!
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