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Title: Steering Wheel on DOS
Post by: vishwats on November 20, 2002, 03:30:03 pm

Hi,
Has any body tried to hack a steering wheel and made it work with DOS ?

Kindly let me know, if you know how/where to

a. Buy a Racing wheel
b. hack a racing wheel
c. Drivers/Software Needed
d. Examples any ?

Thanks a lot in advance
:-)
-Vishwa

Title: Re:Steering Wheel on DOS
Post by: eightbit on November 20, 2002, 03:47:55 pm

Well you could hack an arcade wheel with an Optipac. Andy has a write up on how to do this on his site I think at http://www.ultimarc.com/ (http://www.ultimarc.com/)

Basically its a spinner with a big knob. Most mame driving games should support this and its seen in dos as a mouse, so you just have to load a mouse driver.

I don't know anything about useing a joystick in Dos but I would think if you had a PC steering wheel that plugs into the joystick port with Dos drivers that would be an easier route to go though not a very arcade authentic look or feel.