Posted by Brian on August 25, 1999 at 07:48:55:
In Reply to: optimal configuration for trackball and spinner on panel ? posted by Tripps on August 25, 1999 at 01:51:16:
: I have designed my panel with two joysticks, 12 buttons, trackball and spinner (modified wingman warrior spinner using guts of a std serial mouse). I also just ordered the Hagstrom encoder - got tired of messing with various hacks. Question is this - how is everyone dealing with using both a std mouse type spinner and tracball on the same machine? In other words, do most ppl simply reach inside their cabinet and switch the spinner and trackball serial cables or is there a cheap way to do this on the fly? The Y-Mouse for $50.00 seems way to expensive for such a simple task.
- If you have a serial trackball and ps/2 mouse(spinner) or vice versa, you can plug them both in and have Windows look for new hardware. It will see the serial device and also the ps/2 device and you can use them both at the same time so you don't have to switch. The only catch is that the computer sees them both as the mouse so you can't use them for the same game at the same time. You really wouldn't need to do this anyway since you wouldn't need the spinner to play Tempest and the trackball too, only the spinner, so it works out very well. Hope this helped.
Game On!!! Brian