Can I run a Trackball AND a Spinner with Mame?

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Posted by Jonathan Stanley on 8, 2000 at 2:37 AM:

Hello,

I have an arcade cabinet and am running MAME strictly in DOS. For my Happ joystick/buttons I am using an IPAC keyboard encoder. For my trackball I am using a Kensington PC trackball (serial) which hooks into COM1 and uses a DOS mouse driver. I use the -mouse option on DOS MAME for trackball games.

I would very much like to add a spinner for games not suited to the trackball (like Arkanoid, Tempest, etc.) I could hook it up via COM2 or a PS/2 Mouse Port. But wait a minute - that's 2 mice! Will MAME freak out?

Can a trackball and a spinner co-exist? Can I have 2 "mouse" devices at the same time? What about the DOS mouse drivers - could I turn one on and the other off (e.g. MOUSE COM1 /DISABLE, MOUSE COM2 /ENABLE) prior to running the game?

Any ideas appreciated - I don't want to invest in the spinner if it isn't going to be "compatible" with the trackball.



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