First post, by MrD
I have a Dexxa Joystick from the 486/Pentium era - it's a flightstick that uses a game port connector. It's got four buttons (front trigger, and three on top), and a four directional POV hat on the top.
I'd like to use it in 95/98/Me/2k/XP, but I can't figure out what kind of game controller I should set it up as.
The manual says I should select a default 3 axes 4 button joystick, which does work for the buttons and the main stick. The issue I'm having is that the POV hat is encoded on the 3rd analogue axis - idle, left, up, right and down are encoded as set analogue levels. This means that Windows XP's POV hat support doesn't recognise it, with any of the default named joysticks or custom joysticks I've tried. I've read in this article that the Thrustmaster FCS encodes its hat as an axis too.
Does anyone have a Dexxa Joystick and has got it working with all buttons and hat in 98 and XP? There's no driver disk mentioned in the manual, but perhaps there's a matching third party joystick driver that works using the same encoding.