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rug wrote:

Hi guys.

I took possession of a Gravis Gamepad recently (yay), but I don't have the floppy. 🙁

If anyone has it, could you make an image and email it to me, please?

Seems like the Gravis FTP site has now gone but the Kensington site is still available (for the time being at least).

See here:

1ftp://ftp.kensington.com/gravis/Public/Pcstick/

Bye.

Floppy Image of the Gravis Utilities disk that was supplied with the Gamepad:

http://dk.toastednet.org/GUS/Gravis_Utilities_Disk.zip

Thanks guys!

I've just installed the floppy, and have been playing Commander KEen 4! 😀 It's a brilliant little game, but I seem not to get the hang of the gamepad, though.

Is this the original one with 4 buttons? I had both the original and Pro (which looked more like a PSX controller with no analog sticks).

The original one doesn't need any drivers because the D-pad uses analog axes (but just simulates slamming an analog stick to the extreme ends of the 8 directions) and the buttons from both joystick inputs (PC joystick ports support two joysticks, each with a horizontal & vertical analog axis and 2 buttons, for a total of 4 axes and 4 buttons).

The Pro actually used special encoding (like the expensive CH/FCS flight sticks) to encode data for a D-pad and 10 buttons over a standard joystick port. I think DOS games needed to have special support for it, while Windows could use a driver to translate, and it also may have had a compatibility mode switch to run in analog axes + 4 button mode (like the original Gravis Gamepad) for older DOS games.

It's the one with 4-buttons, not the pro.

Wow, thanks for the info! I thought it wouldn't be needed any special drivers, but to be on the safe side I installed the floppy anyway, and got Commander Keen 4!! 😁