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- From: kbw@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.aviation.simulators
- Subject: Re: HOTAS control of fligt simulators
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 05:26:40 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, det@phlan.sw.stratus.com (David Toland) says:
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- >But that one game port is set up for 4 resistive channels and 4 sense switches,
- >the equivalent of two complete joysticks. Commercial joysticks are set up
- >to use the primary joystick pins (there are some devices like the full
- >yoke for flight simulators that use all the pins). There is a device
- >usually called a "game port Y-adapter" that runs the primary joystick
- >pins of the game port to the primary pins of an extension game port connector,
- >and the *secondary* pins of the game port to the primary pins of a second
- >extension game port connector. You could make one with one male 15-pin
- >D connector, 2 female 15-pin D connectors, and some cable. It's difficult
- >to say which is harder to find, the Y-adapter already made up or the
- >15-pin D's (DB-15 male and female) to build your own.
- >
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- If you want a splitter for the joysticks, just call Creative Labs. The
- sell one as an accessory to their Soundblasters...I think they're 15 dollars
- or so....
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- Kevdog
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