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mo...@gold.mv.net wrote:

>I can't seem to get my gravis gamepad to work under 
>windows 95 with pitfall or even configure the gamepad under
>control panel.  Anybody have similar problems.  I have to 
>figure it out, because playing with the keyboard is killing
>me.  Thanks in advance.

Are you using a game card or a y-cable? If so, try removing the card/y-cable and
plugging your gamepad directly into the port on your computer. After I connected
mine directly, it worked fine.

I've encountered a lot of people who have had problems with their Gravis gamepad
in Win95. Has anyone had theirs work right away?

Curious,
Albert

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tenn...@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Stargazer) wrote:

>mo...@gold.mv.net wrote:

>>I can't seem to get my gravis gamepad to work under 
>>windows 95 with pitfall or even configure the gamepad under
>>control panel.  Anybody have similar problems.  I have to 
>>figure it out, because playing with the keyboard is killing
>>me.  Thanks in advance.

>Are you using a game card or a y-cable? If so, try removing the card/y-cable and
>plugging your gamepad directly into the port on your computer. After I connected
>mine directly, it worked fine.

>I've encountered a lot of people who have had problems with their Gravis gamepad
>in Win95. Has anyone had theirs work right away?

>Curious,
>Albert

What kind of problems have they been having? Reason I'm asking is that
although my gamepad _works_ in pitfall, it acts very hokey. When the
pad is centered the movement likes to jitter to the left, making it
almost impossible to play the game.

In the joystick control panel the centering crosshair jitters too, but
only by a pixel, which ain't unreasonable. The game seems to consider
any amount of movement off the center, no matter how miniscule, as a
trigger.

BTW the gamepad is hooked up to the port of my GUS.

In article <42o35m$g...@sundog.tiac.net>, "Eric M. Busalacchi"  wrote:
>tenn...@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Stargazer) wrote:
>>I've encountered a lot of people who have had problems with their Gravis gamepad
>>in Win95. Has anyone had theirs work right away?
>
>   Well, this may be hard to believe but mine worked right away, even with the 
>y-cable still attached!  How weird.  Well, who knows.  

This is odd, as my Gravis Gamepad has been working wonderfully.  Do make
sure you install the joystick driver, and then make sure you tell the
driver you are using a four button gamepad (it can't autodetect the
joystick).  You can do this from the Control Panel.

Oh, for my joystick port, I'm using the built in one off a Logitech
Soundman Wave.  I have heard of problems from people with multiple
game ports on their machines, even when one is disabled.
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In article <42bcql$q...@grid.Direct.CA>,
Stargazer <tenn...@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca> wrote:
>mo...@gold.mv.net wrote:
>
>>I can't seem to get my gravis gamepad to work under 
>>windows 95 with pitfall or even configure the gamepad under
>>control panel.  Anybody have similar problems.  I have to 
>>figure it out, because playing with the keyboard is killing
>>me.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Are you using a game card or a y-cable? If so, try removing the card/y-cable and
>plugging your gamepad directly into the port on your computer. After I connected
>mine directly, it worked fine.
>
>I've encountered a lot of people who have had problems with their Gravis gamepad
>in Win95. Has anyone had theirs work right away?
>
>Curious,
>Albert
>

My Gravis game pad works fine in win 95 and for Pitfall for win 95. Right
after I installed Win95, I installed Pitfall. Everything woorks just fine.
Rob Merritt

*>I speak for nobody <*

com...@ptsg-austin.sps.mot.com (Ben Combee) wrote:

>Oh, for my joystick port, I'm using the built in one off a Logitech
>Soundman Wave.  I have heard of problems from people with multiple
>game ports on their machines, even when one is disabled.

That was my problem. Win 95 would say that the game card was connected properly
but the joystick wasn't. And it wasn't just my gamepad but any joystick
including my CH FlightStick. Once I removed the gamecard and re-enabled the port
on my sound card, everything worked fine. (Win95 glitch, maybe?)

Albert
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 Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;"
                            - Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892
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Stargazer (tenn...@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca) wrote:
: com...@ptsg-austin.sps.mot.com (Ben Combee) wrote:

: >Oh, for my joystick port, I'm using the built in one off a Logitech
: >Soundman Wave.  I have heard of problems from people with multiple
: >game ports on their machines, even when one is disabled.

: That was my problem. Win 95 would say that the game card was connected properly
: but the joystick wasn't. And it wasn't just my gamepad but any joystick
: including my CH FlightStick. Once I removed the gamecard and re-enabled the port
: on my sound card, everything worked fine. (Win95 glitch, maybe?)

: Albert
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:  

I had this same problem.  I've been using the thrustmaster ACM game card 
and have the port in my AWE 32 disabled.  Worked fine pre-WIN95 and works 
fine in dos games in win 95 even though it told me the joystick was not 
correctly connected.  I got pitfall yesterday and no go on the joystick.  
I opened my ssystem checked if the sound card port was disabled and it 
was and still WIN95 told me not correctly connected.  Installed drivers 
for the ACM still no go.  Now the ACM has two joystcik ports, but they 
say for one joystick use the left one, and I had been doing that all 
along with my dos games no problem.  Well just for the hell of it I 
plugged the joystick into the right port and voila everything works 
fine.  Weird.

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