windows 3.1 joysticks

wizard-fred March 18, 2010 at 20:48:12

The original game port controller has hardware for only two sticks. You would have to make a card at an alternate address, then make a driver for the alternate address.

watler March 19, 2010 at 09:20:44

no one ever made a win16 driver for more than 2 joysticks? if no one has ever done it then there is no standard and I'll just have to make them as I like if one has been made I'll see if I can make my drivers to follow though its handy for analog joysticks you dont need an ibm joystick port just about any port will work lpt,com,usb,etc... thanks for the help

wizard-fred March 20, 2010 at 15:50:22

A similar situation exists for the mouse. Only one mouse pointer on the screen. In the case of the mouse you can have more than one mouse but they all control the same pointer. It depends on whether you want a digital or analog interfaced joystick. A standard joystick card can be easily modified for alternate io address the interrupt a little harder. Using a digital board would allow the creation of more sticks. 1 line per button and 4 per stick Your driver has to do the polling and other housekeeping.

watler March 22, 2010 at 10:51:58

thanks for the help made a test multiple joystick driver wrapper http://win31.no-ip.org/freeware/new... works ok with 5 controlers you want a secondary mouse pointer? give me a example of how you would get the data from the second mouse and I'll give you a win3x example of how I would use it ;)

watler June 4, 2010 at 12:34:36

works ok with 7 controlers a slight speed limitation is caused by by the resolution of the slowest controler return have to adjust driver design for hardware that requires initilization for high speed joy resolution perhaps a joy over lpt interlink would be good...

watler September 7, 2010 at 09:54:22

made a driver that can make use of a secondary joystick port address http://win31.no-ip.org/freeware/new... http://win31.no-ip.org/freeware/new... created a program to enable the creative audio pci gameport the port can be configured at several locations http://win31.no-ip.org/freeware/new... now I need some one with 2 analog joysticks to test it :P wat say?

Well done, Watler! It is very good that there is someone out there who is able to write drivers for Win 3.1. Keep up the good effort!

watler October 5, 2010 at 18:56:23

well done? you managed to get it working? then I'll update it http://win31.no-ip.org/freeware/new... effort? I'll let you wrastle with that one created an game controller driver for a com port (for up to 8bits of input) bet ya cant get this one to work ;) http://win31.no-ip.org/freeware/new... wat say?