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New Product: Ultimarc UltraStik 360 Analog/Digital Mappable Joystick
rugby1:
--- Quote from: rugby1 on June 15, 2006, 07:10:24 pm ---It is not unreasonable to ask that a CLI be included in the next version.
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--- Quote ---The UltraStik can be mapped from the CLI already. From the start AFAIK. (See posts by SirPoonga and around that area.)
So either it's not unreasonable to ask that it remains in, or it's unreasonable to ask that it's (re)added. ;)
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After some further research, you are 100% correct about the CLI already included (http://www.ultimarc.com/ultrastik_prog.html) :cheers:
AndyWarne:
I decided on a 9X9 grid because it seemed like a reasonable size, enough squares to define any possible map which most users would need. Although the hardware is capable of dealing with a larger number of squares I can't see any advantage in this and would mean a longer map-creation process.
I do think that almost all of the comments here are constructive and not overly negative but the kind of healthy discussion that I would have expected. Couple of exceptions, one of them I know the persons first language is not English and that accounts for the reason his comments appear very negative when he does not mean them to be (as he confirmed to me in an email).
Changing maps via switches: Well I could be persuaded, I had maybe overlooked the Linux issue. There are of course already connection points for switches and the firmware is changeable by the user using a download. I already have plans for alternative firmwares with differing functions.
Yes there is a command-line option.
AndyWarne:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on June 15, 2006, 08:33:15 pm ---Surely you are not saying that in USB mode, once I download a map I am stuck in mapped mode and can't get back to pure analog? (That would be a pretty serious drawback if you could play Star Wars and then PacMan, but then you had to unplug the stick to get back to Star Wars???)
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N0. You can revert to analog via USB by downloading an all-analog map. But once this is done, the directional (I-PAC) interface will also be receiving the same map, ie no directions will be sent as it's an analog map, until you again download a digital map.
The option to "force analog via USB" will be added in the next software version. The stick firmware already supports this function.
syph007:
I would be fine with only software switching, but if there were way to manually switch... what about something like having a 'set mode' button. Hide it under the cp, or somewhere out of the way.
To change a mode you hold down the button and move the joystick in 1 of 8 directions to select a mode. Of course that would assume the stick could hold 8 'maps'. Thats the least intrustive way I can think of to do a manual switch. I wouldn't want to have to add more than one button to fasciliate that feature.
Again, I'm happy with the software switching, but I can see why others would love both methods.
sirwoogie:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on June 16, 2006, 12:34:47 am ---Actually, if you go back in time, you'll see that the discussion about potential problems and/or upgrades started in a different thread, but were MOVED INTO this thread by a moderator who, I'm sure, meant well.
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Yeah, that was me. It was better to keep the discussion in one as to not have a ping-pong effect.
Andy,
Another wishlist item: open source of the API and the ability to 3rd party flash the firmware. Have you considered that possibility for something in the future?