The Opti-pac is so customizable that I'm not sure what its default "mode" is. It has been a while since I worked with one.
The Ipacs work properly when they are in bare-bones keyboard mode and the newer ones have a single trackball and spinner header.
If I can get time to actually get back to this maybe I can try my second Opti-pac also and we can commiserate?
The Ipacs work properly when they are in bare-bones keyboard mode and the newer ones have a single trackball and spinner header.
If I can get time to actually get back to this maybe I can try my second Opti-pac also and we can commiserate?
Some positive news after messing around with this for a while.
I updated the advmame.rc and advmess.rc in both the /home/pi/.advance and /usr/local/share/advance directories with the mouse data for mouse 0 to 3 and for mouse, trackball, dial and paddle.
Still didn't work. This has been with using my old optic-pac (that I had from the zvg setup) and connected with the Chasm encoder.
I plugged my iPac in with a trackball connected, and without changing any configuration, that worked.
So, seems that either my opti-pac is dead or something is up with the encoder / wiring. Next step is to wire the encoder up to the iPac and see if that works. If it does, I'll just order another one (the one I had on hand is for another mame project) and go from there.

