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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Hellfromabove on December 05, 2002, 11:06:03 am
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... hack a mouse to a track ball because I want to make a cab and I am going to have a mouse on it but I dont want to use the mouse I would rather use a track ball. Please reply. Thanx.
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... hack a mouse to a track ball because I want to make a cab and I am going to have a mouse on it but I dont want to use the mouse I would rather use a track ball. Please reply. Thanx.
-See Ya!!!
sure it is... I just did one not too long ago...
2 helpful links
http://www.members.shaw.ca/bakaye/tballhack.htm
http://mamewah.mameworld.net/MouseHack.html
rampy
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The way I'm approaching it with my cocktail cabinet is using the Opti-Pac optical encoder. It makes the trackball look like a mouse to windows. On top of that, you can wire in any button to work as the left or right mouse buttons.
While I don't have the trackballs hooked up, I'm still looking for them and don't want to pay $125 each for a 1.5" trackball. However, I do have my spinners wired up to it and have the buttons wired into the Opti-Pac and the I-Pac.
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Spend $40 at ebay and buy a 3" betson imperial trackball with a ps2 connector. Search for "arcade trackball" at ebay
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sure it is... I just did one not too long ago...
2 helpful links
http://www.members.shaw.ca/bakaye/tballhack.htm
http://mamewah.mameworld.net/MouseHack.html
rampy
that second link is the way I went, MUCH easier. I just went to compusa, picked up their cheapest USB mouse. Now, mice IR recievers either have 3 or 4 pins. 4 pins is a little harder to figure out, but it is basically the same. You know from the trackball axis (single axis) there is a X1 and X2 (Y1 and Y2 for the other axis). Those two wires and power will goto the IR receiver on the mouse board if the IR receiver has 3 pins. ground is easy to find out looking at the circuitry. The other two is basically a guess. I made leads off of pins with quick disconnects so I can switch things around when needed.
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Spend $40 at ebay and buy a 3" betson imperial trackball with a ps2 connector. Search for "arcade trackball" at ebay
I'm guessng a 3" trackball would be a bit too big for a cocktail control panel... unless you forgoe a joystick... and even then, it's probably still too big...
*Shrug*
rampy
BTW if you have the bread, and optipac would suit your needs without allthe hacking and is very flexible/usefull if you are going for multiple tballs/spinners/etc...
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Thanx for the replys guys, I am so glad that it is cause it would look like crap if I had a mouse showing on it. Thanx.
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