rec.autos.simulators

Anyon have any luck getting the Nascar pro wheel and a Joystick to work.
I am using the ACM game card and the wheel works fine but I cannot get my
joystick to work in the secondary port. TMS responds to it in 1\B ( wheel
is in 1\A), but cannot get it to calibrate in windows 95. Win95 says its
ok if I select 2 axis, 2 or 4 botton, but it does not respond when trying
to calibrate. By the way I am using a digital Microsoft Pro 3D joystick,
maybe an analog stick would work???

Thanks
Rick Sweeney    

Here's your answer. --- go to Software Etc... and buy a thing called the Quick
Shot - J Turbo....something like that.  About $15.  A regular Y splitter will
not allow the wheel/pedal set to work with joystick.  This Quick Shot deal
allows for up to 4 joystick/wheels to be plugged in and one option is for both
at the same time.  WORKS PERFECT.  I can now switch between racing & flying and
just slide the little button from Port 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 or a combo position for
1 & 2.  AWESOME.  CompUSA looked at me like I was crazy when asked how to make
both work....Software Etc in the mall took care of business.

Andrew

% Anyon have any luck getting the Nascar pro wheel and a Joystick to work.
% I am using the ACM game card and the wheel works fine but I cannot get my
% joystick to work in the secondary port. TMS responds to it in 1\B ( wheel
% is in 1\A), but cannot get it to calibrate in windows 95. Win95 says its
% ok if I select 2 axis, 2 or 4 botton, but it does not respond when trying
% to calibrate. By the way I am using a digital Microsoft Pro 3D joystick,
% maybe an analog stick would work???

Windows and most programs will not recognize the second port on the ACM
card.  However, Thrustmaster does have a utility that supposedly will
allow most racing programs to recognize the wheel setup through the
second port on the ACM card.  I doubt that any Win95 program will see
this port as Win95 won't even recognize it.

The utility is called Race Patch and can be found at:
ftp://208.129.210.78/pub/library/utils/raceptch.exe

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