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AndyWarne:
--- Quote from: Turnarcades on July 07, 2009, 07:33:30 pm ---
So far this change reads as not being for the better as far as being a builder is concerned as it puts the cost of a 4-player panel up by around £10 and compromises the PC connectivity options.
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But we have a better solution for a 4-player panel, the U-HID board. Actually the situation depends on how many inputs you need. If you can let me know we can likely put together a solution for 4 players which is neater and more economical than using 2 Mini-PACs.
DeLuSioNal29:
Quick question: Will the new A-Pac work with a "Gorf" flight stick? I have one in the garage and was thinking about replacing my digital flight stick with this one.
Thanks in advance!
~ DeLuSioNaL
AndyWarne:
It should work. I dont know the details of the stick. If it has pots it will work.
Andy
Ummon:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on July 09, 2009, 03:32:11 pm ---Quick question: Will the new A-Pac work with a "Gorf" flight stick? I have one in the garage and was thinking about replacing my digital flight stick with this one.
Thanks in advance!
~ DeLuSioNaL
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Gorf wasn't analog.
Turnarcades:
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on July 09, 2009, 02:44:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Turnarcades on July 07, 2009, 07:33:30 pm ---
So far this change reads as not being for the better as far as being a builder is concerned as it puts the cost of a 4-player panel up by around £10 and compromises the PC connectivity options.
--- End quote ---
But we have a better solution for a 4-player panel, the U-HID board. Actually the situation depends on how many inputs you need. If you can let me know we can likely put together a solution for 4 players which is neater and more economical than using 2 Mini-PACs.
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Using the ordering part of the site I've just gone through various combinations of hardware that we would currently need to accomplish the same as we currently get now. Whilst having the 'mini-pac' version of the U-HID board is around the same price as the old mini-pac (little more expensive for PS/2), on pricing the creation of a new 4-player solution (using the regular U-HID), it is around the same price as buying two old mini-pacs was previously, but not as simple for connection and limited to USB.
After reading the 'OEM' page of the U-HID section it is a little reassuring that reduced-function boards are available at a reduced cost, but this remains to be seen as we do not order in bulk. This of course still raises the issue of the USB connection: previously I experienced issues with the USB version of the old mini-pac as detailed in previous conversations (something to do with the registry) and the old mini-pac USB could only run on USB 2.0, not USB 1.1. Whilst this was not too much of a problem previously (we only tended to have trackballs and spinners on higher-end machine requests with a better PC), many of our customers still opt for the basic PC, which is a P3 system with only USB 1.1.
Is the U-HID family of devices compatible with USB 1.1? The obvious concern is that if it is not, this new hardware is eliminating compatibility with our tried-and-tested setup. Even if it is compatible with USB 1.1, surely the same registry problem exists as on the old mini-pac and it will also suffer from the simultaneous key-press problem that USB 1.1 had?
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