Maybe someone can help, old Joystick.
I had an old Thrustmaster Fragmaster joystick, which due to my old sound card having a poor game port I never really got to play with properly. (I could never get centered, but this was true for all analog sticks) I have since given up on messing with it, and I have it to my little cousin thinking I was doing him a favor. Turns out there are no XP drivers for it, and they don't intend to make them. From what I can tell it's not much different from a flight stick, only it has 4 axis's instead of two, and it has about 10 buttons. Very appealing to someone wanting to play a vehicular combat game, such as my cousin. It was developed for first person shooters, but what little I played with it on the hosed card the visual elevation bit just didn't substitute for the freedom of a mouse for FPS use.
Does anyone have suggestions for an alternative driver? I'm guessing another joystick, however dissimilar with an extra analog axis, say similar to a throttle, and lots of buttons, such as a hat switch, might work. I could experiment all day, but if someone already knows of a "swiss army knife" of joystick customizations/configs I could use as a substitute for the actual driver, or even suggestions of ways to use the 98 driver, I would appreciate it.
My experience with joysticks on the PC is sorta lacking, I messed with them for a while, but I generally found they don't usually work as well as the keyboard. The exceptions being vehicular games (racing/flight) or platform/arcade games (virtually anything you would play with ZSNES or MAME).
Does anyone have suggestions for an alternative driver? I'm guessing another joystick, however dissimilar with an extra analog axis, say similar to a throttle, and lots of buttons, such as a hat switch, might work. I could experiment all day, but if someone already knows of a "swiss army knife" of joystick customizations/configs I could use as a substitute for the actual driver, or even suggestions of ways to use the 98 driver, I would appreciate it.
My experience with joysticks on the PC is sorta lacking, I messed with them for a while, but I generally found they don't usually work as well as the keyboard. The exceptions being vehicular games (racing/flight) or platform/arcade games (virtually anything you would play with ZSNES or MAME).