rec.autos.simulators

by **SLCsurf** » Sun, 06 Dec 1998 04:00:00

I have a Thrustmaster Pro wheel and Diamond Sonic Impace s90 sound card. I
wanted to be able to switch between the driving wheel and my new Microsoft
Sidewinder Precision Pro Joystick without disconnecting the wheel and pluging
in the stick. I bought a 'Y' connector. Hooked up the wheel just to see if it
was going to work (didn't plug in the stick yet or even set it up). The wheel
seemed to work until I tried to calibrate. The calibration would not work. Is
this a problem of having the 'Y' connector going into the sound card or ?.
Also I see that the Thrustmaster ACM card has two dual ports. Anyone know
about this card? Will this card make it possible to hook up both wheel and
stick?
Steve

by **Target** » Sun, 06 Dec 1998 04:00:00

I don't know about that, but a Joyswitch allows you to connect into multiple
ports and switch between wheel & joystick by just turning a switch.
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by **DJacob** » Mon, 07 Dec 1998 04:00:00

The second port is only for games that support two joysticks. You will need a
Joyswitch to hook both up.
Don

by **Michael E. Carve** » Mon, 07 Dec 1998 04:00:00

% I have a Thrustmaster Pro wheel and Diamond Sonic Impace s90 sound card. I
% wanted to be able to switch between the driving wheel and my new Microsoft
% Sidewinder Precision Pro Joystick without disconnecting the wheel and pluging
% in the stick. I bought a 'Y' connector. Hooked up the wheel just to see if it
% was going to work (didn't plug in the stick yet or even set it up). The wheel
% seemed to work until I tried to calibrate. The calibration would not work. Is
% this a problem of having the 'Y' connector going into the sound card or ?.
% Also I see that the Thrustmaster ACM card has two dual ports. Anyone know
% about this card? Will this card make it possible to hook up both wheel and
% stick?

What the Y-cable does is split the dual joystick port on you soundcard
into 2 ports. You can look into a joyswitch device (as already
mentioned).

As to the ACM card the second port is mapped to a different I/O address
(209 is the default I think). Thrustmaster has a program that
supposedly allows racing games to use this 2nd port (though I haven't
tried it). ftp://208.129.210.78/pub/library/utils/raceptch.exe

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