Posted by SuccessJoe on 31, 2001 at 9:14 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Tech questions posted by OSCAR on 31, 2001 at 7:42 PM:
By the latest MAME you mean the DOS version or MAME32 for Windows??
: : Speaking of two spinners, how would you connect two Oscar spinners to the same PC and have them act independently? I'm sure there's a simple explanation but as I've never read this deep I am looking for the information. :-)
: : A further question: how would one go about connecting two trackballs AND two Oscar spinners on the same control panel to a PC?
: I have two OSCAR spinners connected to my test machine, one on the PS/2 port and one on a serial port. Using the latest MAME (37b11) which has support for dual mice, I have both spinners working independently. For instance, I can play two player Blasteroids with this setup.
: If you are not running the latest MAME, I believe you can run OptiMAME and achieve the same results. I have not personally tried this method, yet though. You can download the MAME mouse drivers from the download page on http://www.mame.net.
: As far as two trackballs, and two OSCAR's, you should be able to use a mouse splitter (Y-mouse, for example) and have a trackball and spinner available for each player. Again, I have not tried this method, but in theory it should work.
: I'm sorry that I haven't been able to fully test the dual trackball/OSCAR setup yet, but seeing as dual mouse support is fairly recent in the offical MAME beta, I really haven't had a chance to fully explore the possibilities.
: If you have any other questions, please feel free to email me.