First post, by Hamby
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I've a couple old Gravis Stinger serial port joysticks.
A long long time ago I was going to try developing a driver for them for Irix. Even got in touch with Gravis, who pointed me at some Linux drivers, but that was... 20 years ago.
Well, I found some source code for a Linux driver, again, only this time I'd like to see if I could get the joysticks working with DOS.
I have the driver disks for them, but... windows.
Could anybody give me some guidance on probing the Stinger's serial connector with a multimeter and hopefully thus discovering some info on how it communicates?
The Linux driver source code uses the Linux input library, so it's not a lot of use, but from what I can glean, it looks like the stinger puts out a four-bite packet for each event. I'm probably wrong, that's why I want to probe it while using it to see what comes up.
Btw, the Stinger's still available on Amazon...
Not a bad price either, if you want it for Windows or Linux gaming on a laptop...
https://www.amazon.com/Gravis-G43011-Stinger- … tinger+joystick