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Newbie I-PAC VE questions
jcroach:
--- Quote from: mcdo15 on December 29, 2004, 01:00:41 pm ---why dont u just program emultors to match existing controls you have?
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Isn't that just 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other? (sorry, that's the mid-westerner in me)
I've figured out how to alter the controls on all my emulators except for Z26. I use an older version of Z26 that's compatible with my RedOctane USB joysticks. And I want to be able to map some of the cabinet buttons to function as the game select and reset Atari 2600 buttons. After using the WinPAC Interactive Panel Designer, I think it's going to be fairly easy. If anyone has experience with this, please let me know.
mcdo15, which emulators do you use? Are they easy to alter the controller settings?
mcdo15:
--- Quote from: jcroach on December 29, 2004, 01:23:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: mcdo15 on December 29, 2004, 01:00:41 pm ---why dont u just program emultors to match existing controls you have?
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Isn't that just 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other? (sorry, that's the mid-westerner in me)
I've figured out how to alter the controls on all my emulators except for Z26.
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Grasshopper:
The caps/scroll/num lock LED outputs are shared with three of the Ipac's button inputs. I suggest you look on Tiger-Heli's site for further details of this.
http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/
Standard Ipac boards have header pins for connecting the LEDs. Presumably on the Ipac VE you simply connect them to the appropriate screw terminals.
It's interesting that the VE board has eight extra inputs. Andy announced a year ago that he would be producing a 36 input version of the Minipac but it never materialised. Maybe the VE board shares the same basic design but without ps/2 support.
jcroach:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on December 30, 2004, 06:44:51 pm ---The caps/scroll/num lock LED outputs are shared with three of the Ipac's button inputs. I suggest you look on Tiger-Heli's site for further details of this.
http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/
Standard Ipac boards have header pins for connecting the LEDs. Presumably on the Ipac VE you simply connect them to the appropriate screw terminals.
It's interesting that the VE board has eight extra inputs. Andy announced a year ago that he would be producing a 36 input version of the Minipac but it never materialised. Maybe the VE board shares the same basic design but without ps/2 support.
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Thanks for the response. That web site looks good. I'll have to dive further into it later today.
One thing I found interesting about the extra inputs in the I-PAC VE is that there are 8 connectors, but the IPAC Interactive Panel Desinger only recognizes 4 in the panel design mode. It recognizes all 8 in the keycodes mode. Maybe I should check and see if it's looking at 1A and 1B as 1SW7 and 1SW8? Interesting......
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: jcroach on January 03, 2005, 08:32:17 am ---One thing I found interesting about the extra inputs in the I-PAC VE is that there are 8 connectors, but the IPAC Interactive Panel Desinger only recognizes 4 in the panel design mode. It recognizes all 8 in the keycodes mode. Maybe I should check and see if it's looking at 1A and 1B as 1SW7 and 1SW8? Interesting......
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You are correct, 1A and 1B (and 2A and 2B) correspond to SW7 and SW8, it is only 4 added inputs. (32 vs. 28). C and D inputs can only be programmed in the keycodes section of the software. I thought they were programmed to nothing by default, but apparently not.
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