Moved to patches.
Before I add I would like more feedback, especially on the older games.

Qbix wrote:

Moved to patches.
Before I add I would like more feedback, especially on the older games.

Privateer and the default .conf file lock up Dosbox when i have CH flightstick configured under W98. If I remove the joystick from the w98 settings dosbox runs. I tried adding the [bios] to the config file as it wasn't there. That didn't help. Also tried runnning it using the latest D-Fend. Same results. what other info do you need?

increasing the cycles with this patch breaks at least keen4 and tyrian. (both move to right bottom)

Should happen to any game that doesn't use the timer method. I don't think both methods can be satisfied together considering cycle changes which weren't possible on real computers - maybe it would be best to really add the range in conf file, when < 100 it uses the old method, >100 the new one. Defaults to current value.

(The attached patch makes Alley Cat work with Joystick.)

ah yes. I got a few changes for the detection as well.
Will clean up my source and post it here.

Here they are.
Some debugging messages are still there though.

hal: Can't that bit always be set ?
as we always have a gameport. Maybe not always a joystick attached to it though, but your current patch doesn't take that in account as well. (the constructor doesn't exist on no joystick)

Yes, gameport will read 0xFF without joystick anyway.

did something in CVS change? Crusader seems to work now with unpatched CVS.

Timer did.

I've put things together a bit...

Options for dosbox.conf:

autofire (thx to wd)
swap34 (swaps axes 3 and 4)
timed (use alternative joystick emulation else the original one)

timed provides better emulation for some games. But for the other games it is cycles dependent.

Example (having a 3 axis joystick with hat):

[bios]

(Terminal Velocity)
joysticktype=ch swap34

(Overkill)
joysticktype=2axis autofire

(Armada)
joysticktype=fcs timed

that sound like nice options. This might also look good if it were runtime configurable and in the menu patch 😀

Nice 😀
Is the 34 swapping really vital? Might be better done at the
host level (where you can do all kinds of remapping).

I can't use emulated CH (throttle) without it. I don't know about other joysticks but maybe in CH it should be swapped by default? Swapping might still be good because I've read that sombody had a 4-axis joystick with throttle and rudder which were swapped in Dosbox and thus useless.

> Might be better done at the host level
Yea I was just a bit lazy there...

Yes, prompt said this as well (axis of rudder and throttle swapped).
I tracked this in SDL, and they seem to forward it quite orthogonal,
but maybe something before is swapping it for some reason.

Does it WORK for somebody correctly?? If not, it might be considered
to have axis34 swapped by default.

Just FYI, WC3 had a variety of joystick problems, which are non-DosBox related. Try the following fix below first, and see if it corrects your problem:

http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing3/wc3joy.exe Alternate Joystick Routines For Common Joystick Issues

Download, and extract the new file into your WC3 directory. You can recalibrate your joystick by starting the game with WC3 -i

The later talkings in this thread are about general joystick behaviour.

I was wondering (although I havent tried it yet) does the joystick config fix work for WC Privateer? I havent played it with a joystick yet. Infact i have only been using DOSBox for 3 days now. I have fixed all of the other problems with it (i.e sound issues, and jumpy game play) But I was wondering if using a USB joystick is possible? And if so will the Config fix that was posted ealier in this thread work for Privateer as well If I have that same issue?

Privateer does not need this patch. If you have a gameport joystick then better use a Dosbox CVS build.

I have a gameport joystick but I need to buy an adapter to use it thru my usb port. Or I may just buy a USB joystick (wouldbe cheaper then buying the adapter) So would a USB joystick work after I use the CVS build?