Tempest: trackball as spinner?
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:03 am
Thanks for what you’re doing here. The hardware, plus the way you’ve integrated a crapton of software to pull everything together is astounding. Thank you.
I’ve got an old trackball working in Attract Mode via an optiwiz board. It plays Missile Command and Centipede perfectly. I’d like to use it as a spinner in Tempest and maybe arkanoid. I haven’t tested it with Arkanoid but my situation with Tempest is—
- I screwed up the game-specific input keys and can’t remember how to remove key assignments in mame078. Pressing del before selecting the entry didn’t seem to do it.
-I was hoping to select, say, right, and then spin the ball to the right but no go. Is there a file I should tweak for this and the above issue?
- I thought I’d try tempest with another emulator but none of the mame-related emulators will launch when I edit the “emulator” in Attract Mode for Tempest.
Oh. As I write this I suspect that last issue is because the rom is in the wrong directory. I’ll try this tomorrow. Is trying another emulator the right path?
tl;dr: how to set up Tempest to be controlled with the x-axis of the USB mouse?
I’ve got an old trackball working in Attract Mode via an optiwiz board. It plays Missile Command and Centipede perfectly. I’d like to use it as a spinner in Tempest and maybe arkanoid. I haven’t tested it with Arkanoid but my situation with Tempest is—
- I screwed up the game-specific input keys and can’t remember how to remove key assignments in mame078. Pressing del before selecting the entry didn’t seem to do it.
-I was hoping to select, say, right, and then spin the ball to the right but no go. Is there a file I should tweak for this and the above issue?
- I thought I’d try tempest with another emulator but none of the mame-related emulators will launch when I edit the “emulator” in Attract Mode for Tempest.
Oh. As I write this I suspect that last issue is because the rom is in the wrong directory. I’ll try this tomorrow. Is trying another emulator the right path?
tl;dr: how to set up Tempest to be controlled with the x-axis of the USB mouse?