Greetings,

I'm new here and hope this is the right place for my question. I would like to build an Win98-Gaming-Machine. The setup of K6-II@400/VIA MVP3/256MB RAM/2GB IDEtoCFtoSD-Adapter Hell/ATI Rage IIc works nice now.
Some culpid along the way was the BIOS/Windows/VIA really don't like SD-cards above 8GB. Otherwise it was smooth sailing.

Now I want to reuse my old Joystick found in the basement. The stick itself works fine with 4 Buttons and 4-Axis. But the thing has 8 buttons, one hat and 4-Axis.
Sadly it is hard to find some information of this Joystick. It was obviously only sold in Europe.

What i could figure out of an finding an screenshot of the first page of the manual:
- has two switches 1. toggle between CH / Thrustmaster (labeled C/T). 2. toggle between MS Dos / Windows (labeled A/D) - only A is working for me -> Windows?
- hat seems to work by pressing 3 or 4 buttons at once. e.g. hat forward is 1,2,3,4.
- basement buttons doesn't seem to work, even through good continuity on pcb and switches actual do bridge a connection

I'm 80% sure the joystick was sold with an 3.5" floppy. But the floppy died long time ago and likely was thrown away. Couldn't find any evidence of existence in the net.
Maybe the joystick was sold under a different name elsewhere. But the PCB markings "GC-1000-WD M-PCB" didn't brought up something promising.
The ICs on the PCB are:
- Unknown: ANK0 JP-01A / 404342B42FP / 9725 JAPAN
- Voltage to Frequency: NS LM331M
- Unknown: TI 68C685
- NPN-Transistor: BS66t
besides common R, C and Ds.

Has anybody an idea how to get the full potential of the joystick?

BTW the joystick exists with an Gameport and USB. I'm talking only of the Gameport variant. There seems to exists a P-16 version without the buttons on the base and the switches.