Bob/All, In IBM systems one typically needs the drivers, controller card, and joystick to all be designed to work together. Also, the software often expects one of a few model joystick to be available. So, in Evan's case he needs to look at the software and documentation of the program that will use the joystick to see what kind of joystick it's looking for. It may be that the original IBM PC "Game Control Adapter" is an option, in which case you'd need something compatible with that. May be easy and you can get away with a serial port joystick. And so on. From there, find something compatible, install the drivers into autoexec.bat and config.sys and go from there. Newer machines often pair a soundcard like SoundBlaster with a Microsoft joystick. Evan may have working joysticks that "don't work" because the drivers are not yet loaded. Bill On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 8:38 AM Bob Aviles via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi, I have an IBM joystick, look at the picture and tell me if it works on your systems.
Bobby On Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 1:20:45 AM EDT, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm having issues with the VCF supply of Kraft joysticks, and there is no time to fix them before HOPE. Does anyone have a tested and fully-working / known-good IBM (or other non-Kraft) joystick which I could borrow? I need it by Friday in order to test it at the museum this weekend. Dean said he may have one, but in case he doesn't....
My backup plan is to program for keyboard control instead of joystick control, but that's not nearly as much fun.