SWOS has problems with joystick emulation because of DPMI, IIRC.
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Unregistered wrote:

dear all i'm running windows xp and have a game pro usb and i'm trying to get sensible soccer 97 to sense the usb game pad on my machine any ideas

SWOS doesn't work very well in XP:
showthread.php?threadid=998&highlight=SWOS

At the present time, a dual-boot with Win9x or emulating the Amiga version seem to be the best options. When DosBox gains protected-mode support, it may be an option...