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Title: Janes CH Combat Stick-MAME?
Post by: BamBam on September 12, 2009, 10:18:08 am

I was thinking of integrating my old Jane's CH Combat Stick into my new control panel.  It plugs into my sound card rather than USB.  I was hoping to use it for games such as Afterburner etc.
Any thoughts or concerns?
Thanks.

Title: Re: Janes CH Combat Stick-MAME?
Post by: u_rebelscum on September 13, 2009, 11:25:22 pm

I didn't find details on that stick, so I'll have to give the general rules:

If the gameport stick had 4 buttons and 4 axes (or less of both), the "gameport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port) joystick stardard", a cheep gameprot to USB adaprter probably will work.

Some sticks sacrificed two axes for two buttons, for a total of 2 axes and 6 buttons.  These probably will also work with a cheap adapter.

OTOH, if the stick used the "MIDI standard", and thus needing a special driver, it's easier to gut the stick, and connect the switches and POTs to a hacked gamepad or U-HID (http://u-hid.com/).  (First google find with some hacks and encoders links (http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2660386/aroubnd_vintage_CH_products_to.html))

You used to be able to get a add-on card with gameports, but I'm not sure which of the old "MIDI standard" sticks are supported on the Vista/XP/7/linux OSes.

Title: Re: Janes CH Combat Stick-MAME?
Post by: BamBam on September 14, 2009, 11:46:07 am

Actually I have one of those dedicated Gameport Cards somewhere in my box of gizmos.  I might just give that a try.
Thanks.