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Connecting an analog flight stick
thelevin8r:
I am thinking of getting a PC flight stick to put in my cab for games like start wars, and I think Red Barron. Is there anything special I need to look for in a stick such as analog or digital? Is the only way to connect them to use game port on the PC or can they be hacked in some other way? My can runs in dos, with a SB Live card, so I am assuming that I would need some dos drivers for the game port, then I would configure only the games that I want to use the flight stick?
TheLevin8R
Chris:
In DOS, the game port is your only option. You do not need drivers for the stick. DOS gameport sticks are analog.
--Chris
Lilwolf:
1) Starwars on a flight stick isn't starwars... Their controls are just down right different... Look on ebay for the real ones... they come up all the time for about 100bucks for a nice one... and 50 for one that needs work
2) PC flight sticks you will have to go gameport... so all the latestest are outs.
3) Bit problems here.. you can get true arcade analog ones pretty cheap (I got one in perfect shape for 10 bucks and 7 shipping on ebay). BUT....they run on 5k pots. gameport PC sticks use 100k pots.... So you have to swap them out (25bucks each for good ones from happs) or do the 1Up starwars hack on them... but that takes windows and a USB port.
good luck
Chris:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on March 27, 2003, 03:17:58 pm --- BUT....they run on 5k pots. gameport PC sticks use 100k pots.... So you have to swap them out (25bucks each for good ones from happs)
--- End quote ---
Or just buy a PC stick and rip the pots out of them... :)
Xphile:
if you can find a logitech wingman (or wingman extreme with the built in spinner), it runs 5k pots... it was easy as pie to hack into my space harrier upright's flight stick:
rip apart wingman extreme.
put it's circut boards into space harrier control panel.
connect wires from wingman's circut board's wiring harness to space harrier pots.
plug it into gameport.
calibrate in control panel.
done...too easy:-)
too easy
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