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| ElKootcho:
--- Quote from: DrumAnBass on March 14, 2007, 06:25:04 pm ---Will you be running OS-X on your B&W? If so check out Jukebox; a pretty cool mame FE from the looks of it; http://www.c3images.com/jukebox/ --- End quote --- Yes, running 10.3.5. That FE looks cool. I'll definately keep an eye on it. Thanks for the link. |
| ElKootcho:
--- Quote from: Crowquill on March 14, 2007, 07:59:27 pm --- I first read about EmuLaunch about a week after I gave away my B&W G3. I've not tried it but it looks promising. http://emulaunch.com/ I still have a spare glidepoint that I bought for that purpose too. I started to give up on the G3 when I realized my frogger-style control panel couldn't comfortably fit 2 6-button layouts plus a trackball. I could have squeezed the glidepoint in, but I wanted something a bit more seamless that didn't ruin the illusion of using a normal-looking control panel. --- End quote --- I'll be checking emulaunch as well. Thank you. Regarding glidepoint: it works well with my mac (tracks flawlessly and tap works). Do you know if there is any way to program the buttons under OS X? Right now all 3 function as a single mouse click. |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 14, 2007, 10:52:06 am ---The primary advantage of the X-Arcade encoder is the ability to use it with consoles (PS2/Xbox/SNES) etc. It is not as good of an encoder (lag and ghosting/blocking) as other offerings - based on what others have said. --- End quote --- I've been puzzling over that for a while. From the looks of the design, the X-Arcade serializes the controls (CD40100?) then the modules do all the heavy lifting. Is there controller PCB design so crappy that they have ghosting?! |
| Crowquill:
--- Quote from: ElKootcho on March 15, 2007, 12:07:52 am ---Regarding glidepoint: it works well with my mac (tracks flawlessly and tap works). Do you know if there is any way to program the buttons under OS X? Right now all 3 function as a single mouse click. --- End quote --- With the old ADB one I have I couldn't get anything but basic one-click mouse behavior. Since there aren't any drivers for OS X I doubt there will ever be any support for the extra buttons. I think that the blue-and-whites are the only machines that officially support OS X and have a built-in ADB port. ADB support will always be in OS X though since pretty much all the iBooks and Powerbooks keyboards and trackpads are really ADB (which is also why they're the only ones left with a power key). I'm not sure if it's compatible or not, but you might try to download SideTrack or uControl with it. I don't think I could live without SideTrack on my iBook. It adds scrolling to the edges and lets you assign corner taps to do most any click or keystroke. I'm guessing your glidepoint is ADB as that's all I've ever seen for mac. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 15, 2007, 12:35:46 am ---Is there controller PCB design so crappy that they have ghosting?! --- End quote --- Not sure if the problems are ghosting (unpressed keys showing up) or blocking (some keys not registering when more than two were pressed). What I've read was more on the blocking level, but I am only going on 3rd-party reports from other users and they may have just "thought" it did this. Reports were fairly scattered on this, and I would think a Fighter stick such as the X-Arcade would have had more reviews and testing pointing this out if it were a real issue. Then again, the only encoders that I truly have first hand experience with are a prototype KeyWiz and the original TOKN KB16, and the KB16 exhibited extreme ghosting and yet got fairly positive reviews until I tested it. (The latest version now includes diodes on the PCB which should have solved this problem.) One other possible concern is that I am pretty sure the board is either active lo or hi - i.e. - where the Hagstrom, Ultimarc, and GGG encoders all use a common ground for switches and feed +5V through the switch when pressed, I believe the X-Arcade uses a common +5V line and feeds a GND through the switch when pressed. The only practical consideration of this is it makes it VERY difficult to use it with Perfect 360 or similar (Suzo Inductive) joysticks. FWIW. |
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