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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 13:22:58 CST

Marc,
  You can use a USB to RS-232 adapter on a Mac to enable VMD to talk
to one of the older RS-232 spaceball devices. I don't have access to
the newer Spaceball devices presently so I haven't written the code to
support them yet. If you use the USB to RS-232 adapter, you just need to
tell VMD what the Unix device node for the serial port is and you're
in business. I successfully tested a Spaceball on a friend's Mac laptop
with such a USB->RS232 adapter a while back, so I know it's doable.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:17:54PM +0100, Marc Baaden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> after having got stereo to work on my Mac with VMD and Eye3D glasses,
> I'd be very interested in some Spaceball-like input device. Unfortunately
> all the Spaceballs we have in the lab come with serial port connections
> and the Mac only has USB (or firewire). So I wonder whether there are
> alternatives that would work via USB and with VMD (maybe some newer spaceball
> models, but I think those are not natively supported by VMD) ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc Baaden
>
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