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Slope:
I've watched the boards here for awhile and have plans almost done to build my cab...  Ended up take some time off for real life, when I came back I was shocked to see Oscar wasn't here  :o

Then I ran across this and all seemed well.  :angel:  My question though is that the control panel I want to make has a trackball and two spinners.  The Opti-Pac could switch between them, can this do something similar?  Basically, how can I hook up a trackball and two of these spinners?

Thanks.

markrvp:
One way is to use one Optiwiz for your trackball and then use two of these spinners.  Your computer would recognize them as three mice which would all be active at the same time.  Map one spinner to the X axis and one spinner to the Y axis.

Tiger-Heli:
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 - - - That's a FIFTH way to do it. 8)

--- Quote from: Slope on February 21, 2006, 01:14:44 pm ---I've watched the boards here for awhile and have plans almost done to build my cab...  Ended up take some time off for real life, when I came back I was shocked to see Oscar wasn't here  :o

Then I ran across this and all seemed well.  :angel:  My question though is that the control panel I want to make has a trackball and two spinners.  The Opti-Pac could switch between them, can this do something similar?  Basically, how can I hook up a trackball and two of these spinners?

Thanks.

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AFAIK - there are no games that used a trackball and a spinner together.  You have to decide how you want the trackball and spinners to operate, but I see 4 possible ways to do it:

1)  Wire the trackball to an Opti-Wiz on the X and Y axes, and the spinners to a second opti-wiz on the X and Y axes - The spinner and trackball will both control the cursor, but since you never use them at the same time . . .

2)  Wire the trackball to an Opti-Wiz on the X and Y axes, and the spinners to the Z axes on the primary and secondary Opti-Wiz's.  With this method, you have to map games to use the spinner instead of the trackball, and you may need something like MAME Analog Plus or Advance MAME for the second Z axes spinner.

3)  Wire the trackball to an Opti-Wiz on the X and Y axes, one spinner to the Z axis on the primary Opti-Wiz, and one spinner to the X axis on the secondary opti-wiz.  (The advantage to this is the second spinner would fight with the trackball, but would work fine for single spinner games, so you would only need to reconfigure dual spinner games (and I don't think you would need a dual-mouse MAME to do so).

4)  I would want RandyT's advice on this, but you might be able to hook up Happ optic boards or the BYO optic boards shown here: http://www.ultimarc.com/optipac4.html or otherwise bypass the "brains" on the Opti-Wiz attached to the TurboTwist's and connect them and the trackball to the Opti-Pac and use it's auto-switching function.

(I might have missed something . . .)

markrvp:
Is it obvious I'm a gadget guy?  I like lots of shiny things.  The more, the better. 8)

kkingsto:
Sounds cool.   Will it work with Ultimarc's OptiPac??   

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