kknd_cf
La vieille dame et les pigeons
Has a mouse been modded for the gp32 yet?
A nice little laptop mouse would be helpful. Just curious.
A nice little laptop mouse would be helpful. Just curious.
hmmm but a mouse can move at many more angles than a joystick. I think that's what he meant anywayGruntfuggly posted on Sep 30 2004 at 10:33 AM said:I'm surprise no handheld (as far as I know) has had a trackball incorporated - Something along the lines of one of those tiny thumbballs you can get for laptops would be excellent...
Shirohagen - you could use it to simulate the joystick - don't forget a mouse isn't really analog - it just generates digital pulses in the same way as a joystick, just at varying speed - what is analog is the movement you see on the screen.
A mouse just moves up/down and left/right, it just varies how much each way. Open a standard ball mouse and have a look.kknd_cf posted on Sep 30 2004 at 05:18 PM said:hmmm but a mouse can move at many more angles than a joystick. I think that's what he meant anywayGruntfuggly posted on Sep 30 2004 at 10:33 AM said:I'm surprise no handheld (as far as I know) has had a trackball incorporated - Something along the lines of one of those tiny thumbballs you can get for laptops would be excellent...
Shirohagen - you could use it to simulate the joystick - don't forget a mouse isn't really analog - it just generates digital pulses in the same way as a joystick, just at varying speed - what is analog is the movement you see on the screen.
Anyway, I'm glad at the response to this, the things I think that it'll be best for is:
FPS (Quake!!!)
scummvm
Shotting games on the NES (it takes the place of the light gun, not sure if that can be done thogh, infact no because you don't see the crosshair, forget that)
Shooting games coders could make (with the new 3d engine who knows what House of the Dead/Time Crisis Clones could be made!)
Anyway..
carry on
Dozer posted on Sep 30 2004 at 06:10 PM said:A mouse just moves up/down and left/right, it just varies how much each way. Open a standard ball mouse and have a look.kknd_cf posted on Sep 30 2004 at 05:18 PM said:hmmm but a mouse can move at many more angles than a joystick. I think that's what he meant anywayGruntfuggly posted on Sep 30 2004 at 10:33 AM said:I'm surprise no handheld (as far as I know) has had a trackball incorporated - Something along the lines of one of those tiny thumbballs you can get for laptops would be excellent...
Shirohagen - you could use it to simulate the joystick - don't forget a mouse isn't really analog - it just generates digital pulses in the same way as a joystick, just at varying speed - what is analog is the movement you see on the screen.
Anyway, I'm glad at the response to this, the things I think that it'll be best for is:
FPS (Quake!!!)
scummvm
Shotting games on the NES (it takes the place of the light gun, not sure if that can be done thogh, infact no because you don't see the crosshair, forget that)
Shooting games coders could make (with the new 3d engine who knows what House of the Dead/Time Crisis Clones could be made!)
Anyway..
carry on
WarmFluffyUK posted on Oct 1 2004 at 04:19 PM said:I think the best option would be to use the USB port, and write a mini mouse driver to read an MS Mouse. Nearly all mice these days can emulate an MS mouse and you could probably deconstruct an old DOS MS Mouse driver etc.
Regarding the differences between optical and Mechanical, the output from the actual mouse is identical. All mice just send a stream of data down one line, you just need to know how how to interperate the data recieved!
The practical upshot is, it shouldn't be too difficult. The downside is, the GP32 is a handheld device, and to use a mouse, you need a surface. So a trackerball would be a better option, and a trackerball is only an upturned mouse!!!
TTFN,
Clare.
Trackballs are compatible with the same drivers...
ahh yes one of those things would be cool to. But the accurcay of a trackerball would be much better. One coming out a tiny bit of one of the gp32's lumps would be great.ravuya posted on Oct 14 2004 at 01:50 AM said:I still feel it'd be easier to connect a mouse using RS232 serial than USB, since on nine-pin you have different pins for up, down, left, right; be a solder job in seconds (into the joypad wires) and no software required.
But yeah, a trackball is a much better idea, or one of those "keyboard nipple" things like they have on some laptops these days.
kknd_cf posted on Oct 14 2004 at 04:42 PM said:ahh yes one of those things would be cool to. But the accurcay of a trackerball would be much better. One coming out a tiny bit of one of the gp32's lumps would be great.ravuya posted on Oct 14 2004 at 01:50 AM said:I still feel it'd be easier to connect a mouse using RS232 serial than USB, since on nine-pin you have different pins for up, down, left, right; be a solder job in seconds (into the joypad wires) and no software required.
But yeah, a trackball is a much better idea, or one of those "keyboard nipple" things like they have on some laptops these days.