cyclone3d wrote on 2021-12-13, 22:54:
For the ISA card you may need to change it from 4-button to 2-button.
Do you have any other controllers that work in the ISA card in DOS?
Uh, probably a stupid question... But how do I do that?
enaiel wrote on 2021-12-14, 03:30:
JustRob wrote on 2021-12-13, 22:20:
So I have one of those Gravis Gamepad, the standard one that kinda looks like an SNES controller and shouldn't require any drivers. I have an ISA sound card I use for dos games in pure dos mode and a PCI sound card for games in Windows 98 SE. The gamepad doesn't work in pure dos mode when hooked up to the ISA card or the PCI card, and in Windows, it only works when hooked up to the PCI card.
Could the gameport on my ISA card be busted, or am I doing something wrong?
In debugging my own Gravis Gamepad issues in DOS, I found that most DOS games always use port 201 for Joystick, even 2-player games. So make sure the gameport on the ISA card is assigned port 201.
Another thing that helped was some really nice joystick debugging tools that can be found here: Re: Good DOS joystick test program?
Since my PCI card is a Sound Blaster Live!, and my ISA is a Sound Blaster as well, I have two gameport things in device manager, one simply says "Gameport" and the other says "Creative Gameport". One of them was on 200-208, but the other wasn't. I changed it, but got a warning saying there'd be a conflict. However, I can't change the other one to another address even if I uncheck the automatic settings box. Anyway, it didn't work.
I'll check out those tools later, thanks.