A few quick DIY control questions.


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Posted by Tristan Gilder on 29, 2000 at 8:48 AM:

1. Has anyone used a non happ trackball in the UK ? Its impossible to get the compUSA one over here, I can't find anything that looks remotely usable apart from the MS easyball, which looks very poor. I'm open to suggestions.

2. I've read reports of people saying the diode ghost/mask fix worked for them, from this I infer they used a keyboard of the pre-blocking era and hence people must have these things (no I'm not asking about the actual mechanics of ghosting/masking/blocking). But, are there any *remotely* modern keyboards that don't block ? The newest I can find is a very old aktor keyboard that has no 'grey' keys (use numlocked keypad) and has an all in one encoder/matrix solid PCB (with diodes wired in, yes you can press all the keys with no go ghosting/masking as is). I may just cut this down (the encoder part takes up a full 2" strip at the top of the board) and plonk it in if I can't find any better.
A point of interest - I tried an Archimedes A3xx keyboard built circa 1987, its very blocky indeed - you can only press ANY 2 keys at once, irrelevant of whether they are problem rectangle corner keys or not!

3. Recommendations for a 4-way stick for Pacman, Donkey Kong, etc ? Its yet another point I could probably waste all day researching (Wico ball tops look good, no too stiff, no wait replace the rubber springy bit from a different Wico stick.. etc to boredom).


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