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Best Keyboard Encoder for 3 Sided Cocktail (with MaLa)?
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RandyT:

--- Quote from: melarky on January 16, 2007, 04:47:06 pm ---So, if I understand what you wrote correctly, that would disable the side control panel until the switch is flipped, and then when it's flipped, the ends would be disabled and the middle would work?

But that wouldn't fix it so that the monitor screen would flip to the correct position when the side controls are used.  Maybe I'm not sunderstanding this.

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Thanks for the kind words.  But I guess I should have read your post more carefully.  For some reason I thought you were concerned about someone flipping the screen on you when you were trying to use the other controls.  In answer to your other question, however, to make the controls either / or you would need an SPDT switch.  Flip one way and the middle works, flip it the other and the 2 ends work.  Doesn't do what you want, but would keep the shared middle controls from interfering with the other player if that is desirable.

It's probably time I have a look at MaLa to see what options are available, but it sounds like Matt has a good solution for you.

I'm flying blind here, but if you have some inputs left over, you may also be able to call them "player 3" and wire them to whatever game selection controls are necessary in MaLa, and wire the rest in parallel with Player 1.  This would require some re-configuration in your games to have those extra inputs used in parallel with the Player 1 controls, but doesn't sound unachievable.  Or maybe I went off the deep end again  :-[

RandyT


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