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New Product: Opti-Wiz
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on January 06, 2006, 10:24:05 am ---
The Opti-Wiz elegantly avoids this problem, but the Z-axis setup is fairly MAME-limited. (In other words, if you wanted to use your spinner with a PC driving game, or most other non-MAME emulators, I don't think most of them would allow you to control the action using (for all intents and purposes) the mouse scroll wheel).
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Is this the case even though Randy has explained that his chip far exceeds the performance of regular mice? I obviously know none of the technical details behind the Opti-Wiz, but Randy's explanation leads me to believe his board my be able to use all 3 axes at a much higher refresh rate/speed.
If this is the case, and the Z-axis is actually fairly robust in terms of speed (say, in line with the X and Y axes of a regular mouse), it may be possible to use the spinner in non-MAME games.
Just a thought. Hopefully Randy can let us know which is the case. (Or some of the beta testers)
EDIT: I had a bit of a brain fart there and totally missed the main point of your post Tiger. :laugh: I guess it wouldn't be very common for newer PC games to allow you to map controls to the scroll wheel. I'm still curious about the speed of the Z-axis on the Opti-Wiz compared to a run-of-the-mill mouse though.
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on January 06, 2006, 11:27:01 am ---If this is the case, and the Z-axis is actually fairly robust in terms of speed (say, in line with the X and Y axes of a regular mouse), it may be possible to use the spinner in non-MAME games.
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Well yeah, if the game can see the mouse wheel. You could use it to change weapons in quake1.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on January 06, 2006, 12:25:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame on January 06, 2006, 11:27:01 am ---If this is the case, and the Z-axis is actually fairly robust in terms of speed (say, in line with the X and Y axes of a regular mouse), it may be possible to use the spinner in non-MAME games.
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Well yeah, if the game can see the mouse wheel. You could use it to change weapons in quake1.
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Yeah.. I missed that at first. I was just thinking of it as a "better Z axis" but didn't think of how few games (if any) allow you to map controls to the mouse wheel.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on January 06, 2006, 11:27:01 am ---EDIT:
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RandyT:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on January 06, 2006, 11:27:01 am ---I'm still curious about the speed of the Z-axis on the Opti-Wiz compared to a run-of-the-mill mouse though.
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Tiger-Heli is correct.
The Z-axis is every bit as fast as the X and Y. They are all processed equally.
Just for reference purposes, with this chip, the routine that scans and processes the activity on all 3 axis takes only .000033 seconds to complete. Of course it needs to transmit data once in a while as well, but it even scans in the middle of that process so as not to miss a beat.
Oh, and no light guns. Different kind of optical. :)
RandyT
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