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Article #495Re: WCI Joystick probs
From: vaha... Harry Myer
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:12
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:12
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In article <1993May19.0...@leland.Stanford.EDU> has...@leland.Stanford.EDU (Zachary Charles Haston) writes: > >I just bought Wing Commander I (w/ Special Missions I and II) and am having >problems with my joystick. My machine is a 486/25 SX and I have had the >joystick a long time and have never had this problem before. What happens is >that the pointer just freezes causing me to use the keyboard (which is not >really possible for this game). Also trigger firing stops. This can be right >in the middle of a mission or at the start of the game before a mission. I >wouldn't be complaining, but it happens about a third of the time (by Murphy's >Law the third of the time I'm winning the mission). > >Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a fix (and if so, where)? > >Thanks in advance. > I had that problem, I believe it was a conflict with the mouse driver. (Wing Commander will activate its mouse control if you just tap the mouse)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utcsri!utnut!torn!csd.unb.ca!vahamyer From: vaha...@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Harry Myer) Subject: Re: WCI Joystick probs Message-ID: <1993May19.151231.29043@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> Sender: ne...@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca Organization: University of Prince Edward Island References: <1993May19.034327.22929@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:12:31 GMT Lines: 19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit