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First post, by Hamby

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I dug up my Gravis Stinger gamepads. What they are is small, circular gamepads that connect via the gameport. They're Win95 compatible, but I don't think there's any DOS support for them. I know there was a Linux driver, because about 14-16 years ago I was trying to write a driver for Irix based on the Linux driver.

What I'm interested in now is getting them to work with MSDOS. My first thought was to connect it to my serial port and talk to it via a terminal program. First I'd have to figure out what speed it would speak at. I do recall that the Stinger communicates in 4 byte packets.

Has anyone done research into programming the gamepads? I'd like to learn whatever you may have to share.
Likewise, I'll post any progress I make, as I make it. If I get it working, I'll release the source and binary.