Serial Trackball crashes games

[DannyH]

Hi,

I have a serial trackball mouse that i use as my cabinets trackball. Whenever I play trackball games with this the game will crash back to MAME. I have tried with MAME32 and MAME. The games do not crash at any specific time or place.

Machine Specs
P4 1.5Ghz
768MB RAM
60GB HD

The mouse is a trudox trackball.

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be causing games to crash?

The games that I have tried are
- All versions of Golden Tee
-World Champion Bowling

Any ideas?

Cheers

[BobA]

Might help if you provided some more info.

What op system and does you trackball mouse use a special driver?

BobA

[DannyH]

runs on XP no special drivers

[chemame]

DannyH -

I have a problem I guess might be related to yours somehow. My Golden Tee is fine, as is World Class Bowling...

but 3 out of 4 times my QUANTUM will crash. I notice that, when it does, the mouse isn't reading correctly... the lines drawn are VERY choppy, as if it's polling the mouse only every 2 or 3 seconds or something.

I'm using W2K, no special mouse drivers. Base MAME compile v 0.92

Never have figured anything out with it, I just deal with it. Mostly I'm just posting so you'll know you're not crazy... well, not about this anyway.

Chemame

[Minwah]

The games that I have tried are
- All versions of Golden Tee
-World Champion Bowling

Have you tried these games without the trackball plugged in?  Maybe they are having problems running regardless of the trackball (?)

[Bloinkxp]

I have never used a serial trackball, but if your OS is 2k can you adjust the mouse sensitivity in the control panel?  Maybe that will help...