Random Accessories Thread

[Colif]

Someone here asked about Trackballs at some stage and I keep thinking its you but it must have been someone else

trackballs were created decades before the first mouse.
first trackball in 1946
First mouse in 1964

A Brief History of the Personal Computer Trackball

Popular PC writings have it that a trackball is nothing more than "an upside down" mouse. This is, however, quite inaccurate revisionist history and, if anything, a mouse is an upside down trackball since development of the trackball pre-dates early development of the mouse by about 11 years...

www.trackballworld.com

"Upside Down" Misconception: While it is often said that a trackball is simply an "upside-down mouse," it is more historically accurate to say a mouse is an "upside-down trackball

 

[Zed Clampet]

Someone here asked about Trackballs at some stage and I keep thinking its you but it must have been someone else

trackballs were created decades before the first mouse.
first trackball in 1946
First mouse in 1964

A Brief History of the Personal Computer Trackball

Popular PC writings have it that a trackball is nothing more than "an upside down" mouse. This is, however, quite inaccurate revisionist history and, if anything, a mouse is an upside down trackball since development of the trackball pre-dates early development of the mouse by about 11 years...

www.trackballworld.com

"Upside Down" Misconception: While it is often said that a trackball is simply an "upside-down mouse," it is more historically accurate to say a mouse is an "upside-down trackball

I used trackballs back in the day. It feels completely foreign to me now. Also, it's the first thing I've connected to this PC with bluetooth. It connected immediately, but it keeps hesitating. I'm not sure if that is bluetooth related, but I'm going to try it with the dongle.

 

[Colif]

It could be signal interference.
Other causes being outdated drivers, run GCC recently?
or low battery

My most recent Bluetooth driver is from November but its always possible you have difference chips since you on intel.

 

[Zed Clampet]

It could be signal interference.
Other causes being outdated drivers, run GCC recently?
or low battery

My most recent Bluetooth driver is from November but its always possible you have difference chips since you on intel.

Actually, it was because of the battery. They must not sell many of these, as the battery, despite not being connected, was pretty much dead.

 

[Colif]

windows can at least show you battery levels, it has no idea about wireless.

Hence I never can tell what battery my kb is on. I have to just remember to plug it in some days

 

[Colif]

No, they won't... but they will sound better.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Even though the possibilities were tantalizing, I avoided trying an MMO mouse for years, but you wouldn't believe how much I love them now. I will never use anything else for gaming. I'm just going to copy/paste an example that I mentioned in the general thread:

I bought Tennis Elbow 4. It has overwhelmingly positive review scores. When I launched the game, though, and looked at the keyboard controls, my immediate thought was that I should refund it. There are something like 8 different types of shots in the game, and they all have bizarre keypresses. For instance, one shot, maybe the high lob, requires you to press cntrl+alt+up. Every shot was like that. There's no chance I could play that way.

But what I ended up doing was making macros for all the shots and assign them to buttons on my MMO mouse. Much, much better.

My assumption had always been that I'd never get used to all the buttons, but it actually didn't take me that long. My biggest problem is that on one mouse, made by UTech, the buttons are so close together that I can't use the middle buttons because I can't press them without also pressing one of the buttons next to them. This isn't a problem with the SteelSeries.

 

[Colif]

I only use the two main buttons on my mouse and scroll wheel. I mostly ignore the side buttons and had to look in Steelseries software to see what they meant to... seems two of them move forum page back, and only one forward... and that is totally ignoring the trigger at front left that I also ignore.

On the logitech mouse I had before you could remove the trigger... so i did. but it was too heavy.
I like my aerox as to get dust out I just turn mouse up side down and bash it on the mouse pad a few times... shame keyboard not so easy

 

[Zed Clampet]

I only use the two main buttons on my mouse and scroll wheel. I mostly ignore the side buttons and had to look in Steelseries software to see what they meant to... seems two of them move forum page back, and only one forward... and that is totally ignoring the trigger at front left that I also ignore.

On the logitech mouse I had before you could remove the trigger... so i did. but it was too heavy.
I like my aerox as to get dust out I just turn mouse up side down and bash it on the mouse pad a few times... shame keyboard not so easy

To be honest, the Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite MMO mouse is much better, but the key mapping is painful. The Logitech is likely better, but at $240, I can think of more interesting things to buy. I may one day try the Redragon version, but my experiences with them are extremely poor.