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Title: How do you have a trackball and spinner at the same time?
Post by: Richy on August 15, 2003, 10:17:30 pm

See subject.

If they both use mouse inputs, how do you have both of them?
Do you have to plug them in and out?

Title: Re:How do you have a trackball and spinner at the same time?
Post by: Zeitgeist on August 15, 2003, 11:09:16 pm

Windows & dos supports multiple mice.
You can have one PS2 & two serial & several usb if you like.
They will all operate at the same time but they all control the same cursor.
So if you spin the Tb in one direction & the spinner in another, the cursor will simply jitter & then go in one direction when the other input stops spinning.
Right now I have three different pointing devices attached to my PC.
A usb cordless mouse, a PS2 imperial trackball, & a usb optical mouse, & sometimes I attach a serial spinner.
Makes sense???
As far as having two seperate TBs & have them operated independantly in mame, I think that Analog Mame may support this but I'm not sure how.
Good luck!

Title: Re:How do you have a trackball and spinner at the same time?
Post by: hooded_paladin on August 15, 2003, 11:09:34 pm

either you have a switch that will turn on/off a trackball and spinner attached to the same mouse hack (http://www.oscarcontrols.com/DPDTswitch.shtml), or they're two different usb mice and you have Win 98/Me.
If you're talking about USING both as input at the same time, you'd have to have two seperate USB devices.  You can have two spinners at the same time easily, because they each only use one axis of the mouse.

Title: Re:How do you have a trackball and spinner at the same time?
Post by: REBIRTH on August 16, 2003, 03:57:13 am

If you use and Opti-pac (www.ultimarc.com), you can hook both up together and the board will use whichever one you touch first and ignore the other.  So if you spin the TB and then spin the spinner, it will ignore the spinner since the TB was touched first.  This would seem to be the way you would want it to work since I can't think of a game where you would use both at the same time on purpose.

Title: Re:How do you have a trackball and spinner at the same time?
Post by: Richy on August 16, 2003, 06:12:53 am

Ok, thanks.

Title: Re:How do you have a trackball and spinner at the same time?
Post by: SirPeale on August 16, 2003, 10:01:55 am

There is some DOS support for USB.  I posted in the software forums a couple weeks ago about it.