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| richms:
--- Quote from: Blanka on January 19, 2009, 10:13:28 am ---Hacking a keyboard only works for PS2. USB keyboards only handle 6 keys at once. And with a keyboard you can never soft-mod the layout. I still wonder why PS2 is around. Ancient crap. I never take a PC design serious when it has either a PS2, a Serial or a Parallel port. Parallel and no Firewire, how stupid. Hail Firewire :notworthy: --- End quote --- Serial and parallel ports are easy to access from software without messing about with HID drivers and endpoints and crap like that. Firewire was never going to be available at low cost on cheap hardware, it was so expensive to impliment that it never got anywhere other then drive enclosures and moving video around, USB is better for camera connection now, and esata has made it redundant for external drives. The 6 keys at a time is a non issue if you have multiple keyboard boards in the cab - I have 4 - one each joystick, and one for the player buttons. The admin buttons are shared with the player buttons. At no cost to me other then having to go pick them up it was the simplist way to go about getting keypresses into the computer. |
| Ummon:
--- Quote from: Namco on January 19, 2009, 12:13:32 pm --- But seriously, I have a steering wheel I spent $200 on back in 2004 that uses a gameport connector. Thinking of using a Ultimarc U-HID on it to convert it to USB. --- End quote --- '04 and it wasn't USB?? |
| protokatie:
--- Quote from: Ummon on January 19, 2009, 06:57:48 pm --- --- Quote from: Namco on January 19, 2009, 12:13:32 pm --- But seriously, I have a steering wheel I spent $200 on back in 2004 that uses a gameport connector. Thinking of using a Ultimarc U-HID on it to convert it to USB. --- End quote --- '04 and it wasn't USB?? --- End quote --- Not may devices in 2004 used "legacy" connectors, but the game port thrived for some time after the introduction of USB. To be quite frank, it may have been manufactured in 1998, for all we know. Regardless, in 2004 and surrounding years, I had seen some gameport based pads and joys. It is now 2009, and USB is the standard, but 2004 is a different story. |
| Namco:
Oh yeah, well that. It was a Thomas Super Wheel probably made around 2002. These things are hand made and built like a tank. It's a real small operation. USB was an extra $100 or so at the time, so the guy who bought it originally probably opted for gameport to save money I guess. Looks kinda like this, but with the clutch option installed: I think it'll make a fine driving cabinet wheel for 270 degree driving games like roadblasters and such. |
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