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Digital Joystick on SB16?

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First post, by Dacobi

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Hi

I own a Logitech Wingman Digital Extreme which I tried using on an Pentium PC with SB16.

In Descent it does detect a joystick, but nothing works, when calibrating no buttons/axis work.

Is this supposed to work or do I need a newer gameport?

PS: The Wingman Digital has the combo USB/Gameport adapter.

Reply 1 of 1, by sf78

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Most DOS games expect an analogue joystick, so a game (or joystick driver) needs to support digital joystick for it to work. As far as I know, very few games actually do this.

edit: Also, some joysticks have analogue emulation to make them work in DOS.

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