Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: jcoleman on June 04, 2004, 09:52:55 pm
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I picked up an Imperial trackball on eBay last year. It's got the mouse board inside, so it can be used as a PS/2 mouse. Since then I've bought a MiniPAC, which is not specifically tailored to work with the Imperial trackball. Since this trackball will be on a removable panel, I need to be able to connect/disconnect it at will. Using Linux and an older motherboard keeps me from being able to disconnect the mouse with the power running. Therefore I have hacked the optic boards so that they are both simple optical boards and have removed the mouse capability from the trackball entirely.
What I have now are two Imperial (Wico?) optic boards. I know one works fine, since I didn't touch it. Unfortunately I've just learned (by hooking the dang thing up) that it won't work with the MiniPAC. I know the MiniPAC's optic controls work as I've connected them to my Vortex spinner. Everything is hunky dory on that end.
My question is thus: what do I need to do to make these optic boards work with the MiniPAC?
Thanks for any help you can offer...Andy, if you're reading...I love my MiniPAC!
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Well, it is going to be hard for anyone to tell you what boards you modified personally are capable of.
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I know one works fine, since I didn't touch it.
:)
The other is now wired identically.
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I am really curious about this trackball of yours.
I have an Imperial/Betson 3" PS/2 trackball that I bought directly from Betson. When I look inside of it, there are only two boards. One is a standard optics board for one axis. The other is a slight larger board that is the optics and PS/2 mouse on one board.
Was yours hacked by the previous owner?
Also, does your last post mean that it is working now?