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New Product: 49-Way USB Interface - The GP-Wiz49 with DRS Technology (TM)
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: millercentral on April 06, 2005, 03:23:34 am ---All this work to make software switching work. Wouldn't it be easier/more-elegent just to add an IOCTL command to the firmware to allow mode setting over the USB connection?
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Now we're talking!!!!
I think all the work that Toonces has done is great (for a dedicated computer in an arcade cab), but . . .
I have a desktop controller and a standard PC that I play MAME games on. To use Toonces idea, at minimum, I would have to unplug my scanner from the parallel port and plug in the cable for the relay board (or buy a USB scanner :police:). Then to connect the panel I would have to plug in two USB connections for the GP-Wiz49's, plus the DB25 cable for the relay board, plus a 12Volt power wire for the relay board, and disconnect all that when I am done.
If USB programming to change modes were supported, presumably, I could have the two GP-Wiz49's connected to a mini-hub inside the CP and then just have one USB cable to plug in. . .
RandyT:
--- Quote from: millercentral on April 06, 2005, 03:23:34 am ---All this work to make software switching work. Wouldn't it be easier/more-elegent just to add an IOCTL command to the firmware to allow mode setting over the USB connection?
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I have been looking into this for a while now. Much progress has been made in the last 24hrs.
I think everything Toonces has done is great, and will serve a number of users who use operating systems other than Windows well, and I'd like to publicly thank him for his efforts.
But for Windows, I am on the verge of having a working application for software switching via the USB bus. I am successfully communicating with the device under Win98SE. 2K/XP is currently unknown, but should work as well.
More info as it becomes available.
RandyT
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 06, 2005, 12:34:54 pm ---But for Windows, I am on the verge of having a working application for software switching via the USB bus. I am successfully communicating with the device under Win98SE. 2K/XP is currently unknown, but should work as well.
More info as it becomes available.
RandyT
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Awesome!!!! Thanks Randy!!!!
Flinkly:
good thing i've held off from getting this unique peice of hardware...maybe i should wait another couple months, just in case it becomes a wireless encoder. ::)
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Flinkly on April 06, 2005, 12:42:23 pm ---good thing i've held off from getting this unique peice of hardware...maybe i should wait another couple months, just in case it becomes a wireless encoder. ::)
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Another cool idea!!! uh, Randy???
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