Re: newbie...help (optimization, trackballs, etc)


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Posted by lilwolf on 10, 2001 at 5:09 PM:

In Reply to: newbie...help (optimization, trackballs, etc) posted by Anakin on 10, 2001 at 1:58 PM:

To start off with, if you want to build the box, you can easily build a control panel without buying one.

ipac - $40
2 happ super 8ways $20
20 buttons $20

As for rampart, it has a joystick version. I would go that way instead. 3 trackballs are expensive and hard to get working (real arcade trackballs that is). 2 is doable by getting an opti-pac and using two serial ports. Lots of people are hacking a USB mouse into a trackball these days also and getting good results.

btw, ipacs are hotswappable. So you could have one ipac (keyboard encoder) and connect it up to a box that has 2 player 6 buttons each. Then one with 4 players 4 buttons each. Then one as a defender style, asteroid style...

: Yeah, I'm a newbie. Glad we got that outta the way.

: That said, I stumbled onto a site describing the HotROd joysticks...and couldn't resist. :) I did some playing with MAME back in 96...but haven't touched it since then, and don't remember much. Anyway, I'm looking to get some serious MAME-ing done on my PC (Duron 700, 256MB RAM)...and the HotRod looked like the way to go. Just ordered it.

: SO...what would you do, if you were me. Getting a HotRod, running WinXP on a Duron 700, etc.???? Which executable (wmame? mame32? mame?) would you use, with a frontend or not, etc.

: ALSO...a buddy of mine regularly raves about the good ol days of 3-player Rampart...is there any way to hook up 3 trackballs (perhaps those compusa ones, with USB adapters?) to a PC and have MAME recognize all of them?

: Thanks guys...e-mail replies welcome...




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