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HELP - Trackball Soldering / Mouse Encoder - Hack Advice Needed! WITH PHOTOS
steveh:
i highly doubt the trackball will work. My best guess is you are going to need to interface it with a mouse, or mouse encoder, and even then who knows if it will actually work.
slapaham:
Well, I'll give it a go... I have to say, I doubt it will work too but who knows!
As you say, I can always try it with a mouse hack - I have quite a few PS/2 mouses hanging about so I'm not short on materials! I have fingers crossed that I might strike it lucky!! :dunno
Turnarcades:
If the hardware inside the trackball is, as I suspect, just an embelished analog stick mechanism, then it should work - being recognised as those first-gen analog pads that debuted before the dual-shocks.
If that is the case, then most USB pad adapters will work. However, if it fails then it's likely there are some special encoder boards inside or something.
ahofle:
What game was that thing supposed to be used for anyway? If it's just some generic PS2 controller, then Turnarcades is probably right and it's just some kind of bastardized gamepad.
RayB:
If the Atari 2600 could support a trackball, I don't see why this one wouldn't work. It probably translates the ball spinning into very fast series of "go left, don't go left" on and off that's so fast you don't realize all it's doing is pushing "left left left" at a particular speed... If I don't make sense, it's because you need to just bow to me and take my word for it. :D
(In other words, a trackball is not an analog device!)
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