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Pitou:

Hello,

Anyone knows if I can use a mouse hack to connect this steering wheel to a PC? (Part # 50-2837-00)

Thank you.

Pitou!

chrisindfw:

I was wondering the same thing. Happs does have a $150 connection that will take that wheel and able to connect it via USB.

http://www.happcontrols.com/joysticks/950800xx.htm

I was wondering if anyone has used these interfaces before?

u_rebelscum:

You should be able to do a mouse hack or use the optipac or optiwiz for the 360 optical wheel.  I think that happs uses the same sensor board as their arcade trackball (NOT the ps2/usb TB boards), but am not sure of either as I don't have one.  I'll text one for you, if I can have the wheel after. ;)

I haven't used happs UGCI either, but the driving version explicitly says "270° Pot Wheel Only, Does Not Support Optic Wheel".  Even so, I think you could hook the wheel up to the UGCI's TB X-axis, if I'm right about being able to be hacked to a mouse.  But cheaper to go minipac, optipac+ipac, optiwiz+keywiz, optiwiz+gpwiz, or some combo of the above if you just want digital pedals.  If you want analog pedals, you could go optipac+apac.  And you'll most likely get better support from here and ultimarc or GGG with the later, than with the UGCI & happs, since the later have all been tested by people here.  That said, I bet the UGCI will work fine, with the wheel hooked to the TB.

Pitou:

Thanks for the answer.

I was thinking of buying a 360 steering wheel using a USB mouse hack, and for the pedal, I thought of using the PC gameport. I did some test with a POT connected to the X axis and putting a jumper between the 5V and Y axis (to simulate a joystick in Win XP), and it works fine. So I think I'll go that route.

btw, I heard that Vista doesn't support the gameport anymore and that some motherboard manufacturers doesn't include that port anymore, is that true?

If that's the case, I guess I'll have to buy an A-PAC, if I ever upgrade the PC or the OS. But that's another story...

Pitou!

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: Pitou on August 10, 2007, 01:11:19 pm ---btw, I heard that Vista doesn't support the gameport anymore and that some motherboard manufacturers doesn't include that port anymore, is that true?
--- End quote ---

Haven't heard the news about Vista not supporting the gameport. Seems kind of hokey, but it might be possible since Microsoft wants to drop support for legacy hardware (but not the software  ::) ).

As for manufacturers not including the port. Yeah, that's true, but it's not a recent development. I haven't had a built-in gameport on the motherboard since my K6-2 days. It's why I carried my Live! card around from PC to PC for so long.

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