Reply 20 of 25, by crash.
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Greetings,
I was unable to find a PDF or images of a manual, but I think I got enough from a text file that was on the CD-Rom from that thread and various other threads. Thank you!
I had forgotten that this is a DOS era controller and not exactly the same as the other digital gameport controllers that all fell into a black hole when Windows abandoned them. Those include the Logitech Cyberman 2, Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro, and Logitech Wingman Extreme, among others supported by the Necroware adapter.
I had mistakedly assumed that the way to install this controller was to plug in both the game port and serial port, so that sent me down a rabbit hole.
I *think* the joystick can be used with either the serial port or the gameport, but not both, and that the spinner may only be available when using the serial connector. The gameport is apparently optional, for those who want to use only the joystick and throttle functions, as there is also a little switch for Throttle/Hat which I guess selects between these.
In any case, now I have tried to get DOSbox to recognize the thing by plugging the serial to USB adapter in and assigning it to COM1, then configuring DOSbox to use COM1 as a serial port (not sureif I did that correctly but I used this in the [serial] section:
serial1=directserial realport:COM1
Then I couldn't install the DOS drivers for the Logitech joystick because DOSbox has a built in mouse driver, but I found a program called MOUSEOFF.COM that apparently kills the DOSbox mouse driver, so I put that in the config to run before the Logitech mouse driver.
Unfortunately, this is where I get stuck again, since the Logitech driver attempts to search for a mouse (really the joystick) but fails with the message:
No devices found during dual device installation
Or if I use a different USB port, I get:
Warning, only one device found during dual device installation
Serial device found on COM1
EGA/VGA connected
Mouse driver installed
I tried both switch positions just in case.
Guess I'll try all of the USB ports? (edit) Oh well, I tried all the USB ports and I can only connect to one of the dual devices on any of the ports. I don't know if the problem is DOSbox, the USB to serial adapter, or something else. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Incidentally, the CD link that you directed me to has the required patch in order to make Tempest 2000 work with the Wingman Warrior controller, so this should be amazing if I can get it working.
I'm attaching the patch for the DOS version of Tempest, since it seems scarce.
Cheers