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njclifford:
I am being silly.  That is the article I did browse through but obviously not well enough!

Thanks for that... I will read in depth before posting.....

I am a noob!

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USSEnterprise:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 27, 2006, 07:13:11 pm ---

Not sure why USS Enterprise cites "MAME default on the (p)rocessor" as an advantage over the IPac, but to each his own.

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I didn't think the iqac had the default MAME keymaq in its ROM.

My #Synonym fors also bad urinate# key doesn't work. Even worse, backsqace is also bad
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: USSEnterprise on February 27, 2006, 09:06:00 pm ---I didn't think the iqac had the default MAME keymaq in its ROM.

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--- Quote from: IPac FAQ ---Do I have a lot of setting up to do before playing?

NO. Using the key-code programming is entirely optional. When the board is shipped, all codes are automatically assigned to MAME standard keys. As many people have found, this makes installation very quick and easy.

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Cheers.
markrvp:

--- Quote from: USSEnterprise link=topic=50761.msg495784#msg495784
I didn't think the iqac had the default MAME keymaq in its ROM.
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What is an "iqac"?  It sounds like something a duck would say.
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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 27, 2006, 07:13:11 pm ---Not sure why USS Enterprise cites "MAME default on the (p)rocessor" as an advantage over the IPac, but to each his own.

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I can guess what is going on here - First off, the I-PAC/2 and KeyWiz both support the MAME default set out of the box.  (Neither supports P2 buttons 5-8 b/c MAME doesn't define defaults for these, so you have to manually set them, but that is a MAME issue, not an encoder issue.

The I-PAC/4 has a lot fewer inputs defined, mainly b/c MAME failed to define these.

The KeyWiz does define a lot of useful keys such as P (Pause), Esc, Tab, and Enter, hard-coded, but it has four extra inputs to play with.  OTOH, the I-PAC can be re-programmed as desired and will retain it's settings, and the KeyWiz will need to be re-programmed from a startup file if you don't use the default codeset.

BTW, short and sweet comparison is here: http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/encoder/main.htm#KeyWiz_vs._I-PAC2 but you will likely need to read a lot of the rest of the article for definition of terms.
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