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Which keyboard encoder?
Trimoor:
--- Quote from: electricd7 on August 09, 2004, 04:24:25 pm ---But knowing is half the battle! :)
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So just bang your head against the wall untill you can't remember.
Problem solved! ;D
greenacarina:
OK....I'm finally getting my cab together (2 player cocktail). I was going to do the keyboard hack, but decided to step up and do it right. I'm debating between the econo-Ipac and the mini-pac. Any thoughts as to which one is "better"???
Thanks!
Chris
NoOne=NBA=:
It depends what you want.
The minipac has optical support, the I-pac doesn't.
I would vote for the I-pac, and then add an Oscar USB mouse hack for the trackball/spinners.
NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: Trimoor on August 09, 2004, 03:54:26 pm ---One thing I think is a complete waste is the opti-pac.
Sure, it's well made and works great, but a mouse hack is soooo much cheaper.
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For MOST cabs I would agree with this.
I'm in the planning phase (read: trying to get my wife's junk out of my garage, so I have a place to work again) on a 3-P driving/2-P shooting cab that I will most likely be using an Opti-pac on.
That way I will only have ONE device to contend with at startup, config, etc...
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Trimoor on August 09, 2004, 03:54:26 pm ---One thing I think is a complete waste is the opti-pac.
Sure, it's well made and works great, but a mouse hack is soooo much cheaper.
Unless you don't know which end of a soldering iron to hold (go ahead, guess ;) ;D )
you should do a mouse hack.
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Depends what you are doing. The main advantage of the opti-pac is the auto-switching feature. If you are only going to have a single spinner or trackball, then I agree a mouse hack will serve you better. If you don't mind flipping a DPDT switch to select between trackball and spinner - a mouse hack will serve you better. If you don't mind having your spinner active while you use the trackball, two mouse hacks (preferably with different ID strings or drivers) will work better. But the main advantage of the opti-pac is you can have either the trackball or spinner available all the time, and whenever you move one, the other is disabled.
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