rec.autos.simulators

Does anyone know how to make all four buttons work with Nascar Racing on a Gravis
Gamepad? I know I should have a better joystick, but since I want the wheel/pedal set, I
need to wait a bit, so I want to add shifting to my joystick as it has two unused
buttons, but when I push them in the joystick setup screen it doesn't notice them at
all. Is there a way to fix this? Just wondering.
Greg

Well, I don't play Nascar personally, but you need two things to get a
Gravis to work (I use one myself).

(1) The game must explicitly support the Gravis Gamepad (i.e. it must
say so on the side of the box :-). The Gravis's two extra buttons are
really just the normal two buttons borrowed from a second normal
joystick that could normally go there.

(2) If the game supports the Gravis explicitly, then you must make
sure that the Gravis is attached to the game port of the sound card
rather than the game port of any other card on the machine.

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The problem isn't with the Gravis Joypad, its with your port you are plugging it
into.  If you have a SB 16 or better soundcard, plug the joystick into that
port.  You see, joysticks ports only normally accept input from two buttons...
so the newfangled 4 button pads, MS Sidewinder Pro (mine!) and other multiple
button sticks need to be plugged into a port that recognizes the joystick as 2
joysticks - thus letting you use more than two buttons.

If you are plugging it into your standard joystick port on your pc's IDE card,
you'll only get two buttons to work.  If you don't have a soundcard, you can buy
a joystick port interface to plug into your computer for around 20 bucks or
less... but you'll have to deal with jumper settings and interrupt switches....
much better to get a plug and play soundcard! <g>

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