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atari trackball on a pc
david656:
have looked around on google and have still not found a way to connect a atari trackball to a pc.
i just plugged it in to my sega master system to see what happened and the 2 buttons worked so i thought great but the ball didn't well i never fought my sega would of work with that anyway.
but i thought well i have a old pc i'll just plug it in instead of my serial mouse but no its not as easy as that any ideas would be greatly apreshiated
cw:
this is an atari 2600 track?
Texasmame:
Either way, a 2600, 5200 or arcade Atari trac would likely require a hack or at least a pre-made adapter. atariage.com may have them in their store if there is such a thing. . .
david656:
no this track ball works on atari 400 and 800 and a commadore don't ask me what model i think it was summit like c++ or something.
but i have none of the consol's so fought as its quite a big trackball i will use it on a pc in a arcade cabinet
thanks for helping keep helping me pleeeese
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Bluedeath:
Maybe you can use it in joystick emulation mode (if it's the model for the 2600 there is a switch underneath to set it ) with the direct pad driver and connecting it in the parallel port (you need to build a simple interface) but a mouse hack will give far better results. Plus building the parallel port interface has the same soldering difficulty of the mouse hack.
An interesting option, if you know how to handle the data, would be to try to self build and interface connected to the parallel port and read the quadratures with some self made driver but honestly Again mouse hack is the most easy way.
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