Posted by Tom61 on 12, 2001 at 5:17 PM:
In Reply to: Re: hacking usb mouse for multiple paddle / spinner controls? posted by Tom61 on 12, 2001 at 5:01 PM:
: : Is it possible to plug 2 USB mice into a USB hub, get Windows to recognize >1 mouse
: Windows will see only one mouse, but software running under it can tell them apart(if they're programmed to).
: : and hack the mice to have 4 spinner controls for multi-player games like Warlords or the 4-player multi pong games in Atari 2600 video olympics emulation ? (Each mouse would provide 2 spinners, x axis and y axis.)
: Not sure about 2600 emulation and four USB spinners, but there's probably a MESS(which emulates various consoles including Atari 2600) build which is based on the MAME that can handle multiple USB mice.
: :If yes, does MAME (or Stella) support it? Would it be hard to modify the source code to get it to?
: There's a Mame build (look around on this message board) that supports up to 4 USB mice in addition to 1 serial and 1 PS/2 mouse! Up to six mice total! Not a clue about Stella, but a MESS build based on the 4 USB mice MAME shouldn't be to hard I think (if there isn't one already).