Posted by Dave on 15, 2000 at 12:23 PM:
In Reply to: Question for those with Trackballs posted by Dave on 14, 2000 at 11:37 PM:
I loaded the DOS drivers for my trackball into win98, and the 'speed control' of the cursor now works correctly (in windows) and in MAME games, the speed changes also... But still does not perform 'the way it should'..
Example: i turned down my mouse cursor speed and in missle command, the cursor moves even slower that it did before. I cranked the speed of the cursor up... but it still only traveled across the screen at a certain speed and would not move faster...
I'll try Mame32 tonight.. (which usually runs alot slower on my PCs.) Are there 'trackball' or 'analog' settings in that software that may help me out?
Thanks Again.
: Hi everyone.
: I just got a trackball off of the Yahoo auction site. It is the Quasar trackball that has the red and green led lights under the ball... I think some of you may be familliar with it.. :)
: Anyway...
: I'm quite happy with it... and I think I know the answer to this already, but I want to ask anyway...
: In video games where you really had to give the ball a good 'spin'... like Birdie King2 and Side Pocket & others... if the ball is spun too fast in MAME, the object on the screen does not react correctly.
: I find that I have to 'tone down' my spin to get the good hits and/or lots of speed.
: Is there anything I can do to get a more 'true' spin out of this ball? (Even though I think I know the answer..)
: The ball works super for games like Missle Command and centipede, but even in centipede.. I seem to remember, that I was able to 'whip the ball' and zip across the screen... very, very fast. (In the arcade)_
: When I try to 'whip my trackball' in Centiped (MAME), the canon at the bottom of the screen, hits a max speed, then kind of 'glides' along the bottom of the screen at that max speed...
: Thanks for any info you can give me... :)
: Dave
: p.s.
: I have to go look around now and see how people have installed thier trackballs! :)