VOGONS


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Hi All,

I saw some excellent adapters that go the other way (use old peripherals on modern systems/DOSbox) - e.g. from Necrowave, but I haven't ever seen one that does the opposite (use modern controllers with old computers), so I took a stab at it. The Reddit post has a video of it in action: https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/com … usb_controller/

Here's the GitHub page if you want to build your own: https://github.com/Zuofu/HID2JOY

One thing that's missing are the actual resistance values for the POV Hat on Thrustmaster joysticks. I found this post: https://davenunez.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/re … port-joysticks/, but it only lists the ADC values from reading the potentiometer, not the absolute resistance values. If anyone has such a joystick and can read them, I would appreciate it.

Please let me know what you think.