Just got a bunch of new, boxed never pebed joysticks...among them was Thrustmaster Mark I Flight Control System but it's for a Mac, is there any adapter so I can hook it up to PC?
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What kind of connector has that thing? DB15, DB9?
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wrote:What kind of connector has that thing? DB15, DB9?
Looks almost like a PS/2 connector
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Ah. So you want a Mac Serial (RS-422) connector to the MIDI/joystick conector? I'm not really seeing that happening. I'm fairly sure there are Mam serial to PC serial connectors, but even then, you'd still need drivers, which I doubt exist.
If it is a newer PC, there might be a MAC Serial to USB adapter, which the PC might see as a generic human interface device in Windows. *looks about*
wrote:Ah. So you want a RS-422 connector to the MIDI/joystick conector? *looks about*
Guess so..dunno what it's called but it almost looks like a PS/2 connector...hehe
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Wait a minute, does it have nine pins or just four? 9 pins means Mac serial, (rs-422), but four pins means Apple Desktop Bus, which your a bit out of luck on if it is that.
It is a mac joystick? My gravis phoenix had a DB15 joystick connector and a keyboard connector. 4 axis and 4 buttons were used with the DB15, and all other buttons emulated keystrokes (you had to plug the keyboard connector between PC and keyboard).
There were PC and Mac versions of that joystick. Old macs used ADB ports to connect keyboard and mouse, and I guess that joysticks were plugged here. ADB port should be a 4 pin miniDIN.
There are ADB to USB adapters. You may buy one ot those on this ebay shop (is reliable, but is as spanish as me), but you should contact with them to ensure that it would work with your joystick.
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wrote:It is a mac joystick? My gravis phoenix had a DB15 joystick connector and a keyboard connector. 4 axis and 4 buttons were used with the DB15, and all other buttons emulated keystrokes (you had to plug the keyboard connector between PC and keyboard).
There were PC and Mac versions of that joystick. Old macs used ADB ports to connect keyboard and mouse, and I guess that joysticks were plugged here. ADB port should be a 4 pin miniDIN.
There are ADB to USB adapters. You may buy one ot those on this ebay shop (is reliable, but is as spanish as me), but you should contact with them to ensure that it would work with your joystick.
That's the type of connector it has...but I'm looking for hooking this up to my old 386/486 pc's to play DOS games..they don't have any USB ports
On my modern PC's I already have good enough koysticks/pads
So am I screwed when it comes to finding this sort of adapter?
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Well, I dug around teh googleweb, and I've learned it's an ADB plug, so unfortunantly I think you are. Unless you built some kind of ADB to analog DB 15 adapter.
