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Article #65711Joystick and wheel on one computer?!?!?!?
From: Jeroen
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 00:00
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I (very) regulary switch between a wheel and a joystick. This means plugging in and out devices and calibrating everything everytime. Now I've found Quickjoy (a utility from CH) with let's you choose another device once you plugged it in, but it doesn't remember the calibration info on my computer. Now I thought about buying a USB joystick (Sidewinder Pro), but I've read somewhere that the computer only regocnizes the controller in the soundcard gameport. You have to unplug that one to let the games 'see' the USB device. There is a switching box from Trust (Multi Gamer Switch), but that only takes away the trouble of plugging devices in and out: you still have to calibrate it again. Now I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants two controllers on his computer, but I've been looking everywhere without any results. On the Windows 98 controller panel you can add and add controllers, but what for? It only 'sees' the first! Can anybody give me any advice how to get a good running system with two controllers (and if possible, working together side by side for some multiplayer games)? I'm amazed it's so hard to get this done... Jeroen
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From: Jeroen <nomail@thank.you> Subject: Joystick and wheel on one computer?!?!?!? Date: 2000/02/02 Message-ID: <389827A2.4FDD2759@thank.you> X-Deja-AN: 580772794 X-Accept-Language: en X-Complaints-To: ab...@nl.uu.net X-Trace: porthos.nl.uu.net 949495408 6858 145.58.224.234 (2 Feb 2000 12:43:28 GMT) Organization: UUNET-NL (http://www.nl.uu.net) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Feb 2000 12:43:28 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,rec.autos.simulator,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit