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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lightspeed on April 03, 2004, 07:57:23 pm

Title: 2 joysticks in one gameport under Windows?
Post by: Lightspeed on April 03, 2004, 07:57:23 pm

The original gameport concept allows using two 2 button - 2 axis joysticks in the same port. Now the thing is, I want to do the same thing under windows for emulation issues.

So - connecting the joysticks isnt a problem, and a test run with the old DOS games (which support two joysticks in the gameport) was successful.

Windows, however doesn't seem clever enough to get them to work. Basically, what would be neccessary is to have two seperate joysticks set up that run from the same port (joy A + joy B from the gameport).

I know this is possible under Linux, but is there any way to get this working under Windows?

Title: 2 joysticks in one gameport under Windows?
Post by: mikhael on April 03, 2004, 10:32:15 pm

So far as I know, the only thing you can do is tell windows that you have a four axis, four button stick and then remap the axes in your games as appropriate.