Posted by EmuMannen on 12, 2000 at 9:05 AM:
In Reply to: I know its been asked a million times, question about 2 spinners inside. posted by Agent Davis DEA on 12, 2000 at 5:00 AM:
I was around 14 years old when Tempest hit me. Superior game-play with a superior controller! Arkanoid was another game that got me addicted like crack! One again a spinner...
Well back to your question... OptiMAME and EMU+ will both work with 2 separate spinners and two separate devices or two separate spinners using the same device. Here is what I would do:
Use EMU+ instead of OptiMAME because EMU+ includes the OptiMAME extensions (plus more) and is still developed while OptiMAME is discontinued.
Use two devices with two spinners and one trackball if you are planning to use EMU+
Use the serial mouse interface (two devices on COM1 and COM2) instead of PS/2. I don’t have any proof of this but I would prefer to use the COM-ports for mice’s since I am not 100% sure how every PC is handling the PS/2 mouse data stream. I know that the keyboard controller is supposed to handle the data stream by default if no other dedicated PS/2 host interface is handling it. I also tend to remember that I read somewhere that the keyboard controller can handle the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse in parallel but I am not sure. My keyboard controller will take allot of action from my keyboard encoder (try Hyper Olympics for instance) and I am not sure if the on-board-controller will have to multiplex between that data stream and the data stream from the PS/2 mouse. I will therefor try to separate mouse data from keyboard data until I know for sure. So I will only use the keyboard on-board-controller with the keyboard encoder and let the UARTs take the heat from the mouse devices trough the COM-ports instead.
I would be glad if anyone could answer the question about how the keyboard on-board-controller handles the two parallel data streams from a PS/2 mouse and a keyboard (multiplexing or parallel, timing issues etc.).
/ EmuMannen
: Frankly, to tell you the truth, I don't think I've ever played an arcade game in my life with a spinner. However, as I've said before I'm living for the first time what most of you are RE-living, and I think that spinners would just look damn cool. Especially two with steering wheels mounted on top for Super Sprint or Off Road! Anyway, I'm curious about the 2 spinner thing. The question is, which works with Opti-Mame, 2 separate spinners using two separate devices, ONE SERIAL AND ONE PS/2, or both spinners using using one device, ONE X AND ONE Y. This is where I'm confused. What method is easier? I know it'd be easier for me to just build two separate spinners using two mice with one serial and one ps/2. Have people done it both ways? What is the basic method for each way? Thanks.