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Title: help please
Post by: shumph on September 25, 2003, 07:27:40 pm

hey uys i finally got a trackball for my cab

got a wico 3"

made a interface from a mouse if i dont plug in trackball then it will recognize it and show standard mouse on ps2 port

if i plug trackball in though it wont work and wont see it as a mouse anymore?



any ideas????

Title: Re:help please
Post by: APFelon on September 25, 2003, 07:57:31 pm

It sounds like you could have a short somewhere, or the opto circuits in the trackball aren't mixing well with your hacked mouse. What I would try is just hooking up one opto from the mouse and the other from the trackball and see what happens.

Good luck!

APf

Title: Re:help please
Post by: shumph on September 25, 2003, 08:40:31 pm

well it kinda works now i think mouse im using is a no go so im off to order either usb interface from happ or an opti pac


any suggestions on which?

Title: Re:help please
Post by: APFelon on September 25, 2003, 09:52:59 pm

Go for the Opti-pac. Andy has some great products and he is a very hands-on seller. I have had a few flawless transactions with him and he is very worthy of doing business with.

Good luck on your project.

APf

Title: Re:help please
Post by: u_rebelscum on September 26, 2003, 06:27:56 am

I agree, go with optipac.  It has more features than the happs and is a little cheeper.  The only thing the happs has is three buttons per trackball, but the optipac makes up by letting you have two trackballs (with two buttons per), and/or 4 spinners (with the equiv of 1 button each).  

I have both a USB optipac and a USB happs interface, and can't tell the difference between the them when playing TB games.  Oh, I have a wico 3" TB, and yes it works on both.