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Title: Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: Dexter on July 03, 2003, 06:37:59 am

Hello all,

I'm hacking a Thrustmaster USB gamepad to use for a CP. The cabinet is running Mame under DOS. Whats the best way to get Mame to recognise the USB gamepad, does it require a DOS USB driver or something??

Cheers

Dexter

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: paigeoliver on July 03, 2003, 06:40:26 am

Last I checked Dos did not support USB.

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: Dexter on July 03, 2003, 06:45:46 am

The Mobo supports USB in DOS but it's the gamepad thats causing the problem!

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: paigeoliver on July 03, 2003, 06:47:55 am

I though USB in DOS support meant that USB keyboards work in dos. Not gamepads and webcams and stuff, heck that stuff doesn't even work in the USB version of Windows 95.

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: Dexter on July 03, 2003, 06:54:34 am

I have a sidewinder usb dos driver but nothing for the Thrustmaster firestorm unfortunately!

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: paigeoliver on July 03, 2003, 06:56:19 am

Oh wow. I guess I learned something new here. Sidewinder driver is 3rd party though, right?

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: bloodyviking77 on July 03, 2003, 06:57:31 am

Quote from: paigeoliver on July 03, 2003, 06:40:26 am

Last I checked Dos did not support USB.

no disrespect to paigeoliver ;) but DOS does do USB -  for example my mobo (ECS k7s5a) has a bios setting to turn on USB support in DOS. check this first (might depend on your bios/mobo)

however I seem to recall that support was limited - don't know if gamepads are supported.

best do some googling! Good Luck

bviking

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: bloodyviking77 on July 03, 2003, 06:58:19 am

sorry - above post now redundant. (took too long typing!!)

Title: Re:Dos USB gamepad driver??
Post by: ZippySLC on July 03, 2003, 09:38:09 am

There are mass-storage drivers for DOS now.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10215

All USB is is a serial connection. There's no reason why there shouldn't be basic functionality of devices in DOS. The only limitation is with the device drivers. So if there are no drivers written for a game pad, it's not going to work in DOS.

Since very, very, very few people have USB capable machines and use DOS, why expend the effort writing drivers for that OS?