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First post, by Andy

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Hi. I am a user of the subject flight sim and use the CH Products USB Flight Sim Yoke and CH Products Pro Pedals

My full computer details are in my profile, but essentially this is a DOS program running in a DOS window under XP pro.

I am having great difficulty in setting up the JOYx.MAP files to recognise both the Pedals and the Yoke. In the analogue domain, the Yoke has an XY axis (pitch and roll), a Z axis (throttle), an X rotation (prop lever) and Y rotation (mixture lever). It has 12 digital buttons and a 4 position digital POV switch.

The Pro Pedals has an analogue X axis (Left Brake), a Y axis (Right Brake) and a Z axis (Rudder L-C-R).

I have had the Pedals successfully operating the rudder, but no yoke operating. I have had the Yoke controlling pitch and yaw, but with the throttle lever (Z axis) controlling rudder instead of the pedals. If I select the throttle calibration in the PS13a program, it causes the program to freeze.

Aerowinx strongly recommends your product and indeed the audio works well. They have a help page regarding configuration of your product, but admit that the freezing problem happens on some systems for an unkown reason.

Aerowinx XP setup info

Do your JOY files accept more that 4 analogue and 4 digital parameters, and how are they assigned?

Regards,

Andy Woolford

Reply 1 of 6, by Snover

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Since this is a question regarding VDMSound, I'm moving this thread to the specific VDMSound section. 😀

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 2 of 6, by Harekiet

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vdmsound only emulates the standard pc joystick port, this has support for 2 joysticks, each with 2 axis and 2 buttons. Although you can also look at it as 1 joystick with 4 axis and 4 buttons.

Normal dos games just don't support more buttons unless they have special drivers for certain special joystick, so unless vdmsound would someday emulate other joystick types besides the standard joystick your stuck with 4 axis and 4 buttons.

Reply 3 of 6, by Andy

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Thanks for this.

Sorry about posting in the wrong section before. I thought the whole forum was about VDMSound, so I went for the DOS issue...

How do I configure the pedals (USB device A) for Rudder and the yoke (USB device B) for Pitch Roll and Throttle, and 4 buttons of my choice?

Regards,

Andy Woolford

Reply 4 of 6, by vladr

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Harekiet wrote:

vdmsound only emulates the standard pc joystick port, this has support for 2 joysticks, each with 2 axis and 2 buttons. Although you can also look at it as 1 joystick with 4 axis and 4 buttons.

Yes and no. "Vanilla" VDMSound does that. "Update 1" allows full customization/mapping. An even more updated joystick module allows even more customization specifically aimed at PS13 (i.e. it allwos to map all your joystick's functions to PS13's functions) -- search on the PS13 forum for a post by a certain Noel, he has the updated DLL as well as a working map file.

V.

Reply 5 of 6, by Andy

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Hi Vlad,

Thanks for this. Actually Noel got to me on the aerowinx site before you did here. He said I needed "Vlad's DLL". 😀

Guess that must be you then 😉

Noel has very kindly passed me the file and the DLL. I've just been doing some customisation of the file to get it ticking over nicely with my setup and it works Perfectly!

But of course if it isn't one thing its another! Now I just got another problem which arose since yesterday causing the program to freeze on the boot screen. Just doing a re-install.

Thanks again

PS Nice Babelfish!

Regards,

Andy Woolford

Reply 6 of 6, by vladr

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Good to hear your problem is fixed. 😀
Closing thread.

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