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--- Quote from: TheManuel on May 27, 2003, 04:39:48 pm ---Do you mean buying the optoelectronics separately and wiring them to the trackball?.
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Yeah, or get a spinner that comes with this stuff.
--- Quote from: TheManuel on May 27, 2003, 04:39:48 pm ---How can I leave the trackball functionality intact otherwise?
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Just wire to the appropriate connections on the trackball pcb without disabling or removing anything existing. You're basically wiring in parallel.
TheManuel:
The one you are talking about is one mouse and one keyboard to a laptop PS/2 port. They don't work for MAME. The one I linked two is 2 mice or 2 keyboards to a desktop (or laptop) PS/2 port. But I haven't used one, so I can't say how well they do or don't work.
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Sorry. My oversight. It would be awesome if that worked but I am a little wary in this case. It seems to me most mayor companies would have a version of this product if it were as simple as that.
Who knows, maybe i'm being paranoid.
TheManuel:
--- Quote from: TheManuel on May 27, 2003, 04:39:48 pm ---How can I leave the trackball functionality intact otherwise?
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Just wire to the appropriate connections on the trackball pcb without disabling or removing anything existing. You're basically wiring in parallel.
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That brings us around to my original question. I would essentailly be wiring two mice together wheather it is using a gutted mouse or Radio Shack opto-electronics or a commercial board.
You believe it is possible then?
By the way, I would build my own spinner (based on somebody else's writeup) and still gut the mouse to go as el cheapo as possible since I do not play a lot of spinner games (yet) but still would like to have it.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: TheManuel on May 27, 2003, 04:49:45 pm ---The one you are talking about is one mouse and one keyboard to a laptop PS/2 port. They don't work for MAME. The one I linked two is 2 mice or 2 keyboards to a desktop (or laptop) PS/2 port. But I haven't used one, so I can't say how well they do or don't work.
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Sorry. My oversight. It would be awesome if that worked but I am a little wary in this case. It seems to me most mayor companies would have a version of this product if it were as simple as that.
Who knows, maybe i'm being paranoid.
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Yeah, I kinda agree with you, that if it really worked that well, more people would offer it. Also, Stephan Hans and Purple MAME have keyboard splitter circuits on their sites and Stephan has a serial joystick splitter as well. Maybe this would work for a PS/2 mouse as well???
TheManuel:
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Yeah, I kinda agree with you, that if it really worked that well, more people would offer it. Also, Stephan Hans and Purple MAME have keyboard splitter circuits on their sites and Stephan has a serial joystick splitter as well. Maybe this would work for a PS/2 mouse as well???
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Stephan has great stuff on his site. However, the serial splitter would not work for PS/2. They are totally different interfaces.
The keyboard splitter would have more potential but if it worked for mice as well, I'm sure someone would know that and the Y-Adapters section of this website would indicate that you can use the keyboard splitters for this purpose.
Thanks for pointing those out.