rec.autos.simulators

Hello,
I have a question for the ACP and T1 steering device owners.  The
impressing I get from the literature is that they have dual joystick
plugs. I plan on purchasing a ACP wheel but am unable to get two
joystick ports working on my system.  I use the joystick port on the
sound/cd rom board, and have no problems.  The port on the IDE
controller card does't seem to work, no matter where I jumper the
joystick pins.  I have also tried a dual port joystick board and to no
avail it does not seem to be acknowledged by the computer.  Can anyone
give an idea on getting this problem***ed, before the money is spent
on either steering device.
(486 Dx2 66mhz Maching with mitsumi sound/cd rom board, and vision VL
IDE card.
Any and all suggestions will be most welcome.
Thank you
Dave
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I have a T1.  It came with an adapter that lets both the wheel and pedals
operate through a single input port on my sound board (which is a Cardinal
Jazz, the one that is shipped with low-end Gateway 2000's).  I have no
problems whatever other than thermal calibration problems as mentioned
yesterday.  It is my understanding that the ACP has the same feature, but
not having one (yet) I don't know for sure.  Your sound board does have
to be capable of handling two inputs on the single port, but most of them
seem to be now.
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The newest version of the ACP works on a single port game board.  No
longer do you need to have two ports.  Mine came with single 15 pin plug.

So you have no worries with the ACP.

Enjoy

Jack

: Hello,
: I have a question for the ACP and T1 steering device owners.  The
: impressing I get from the literature is that they have dual joystick
: plugs. I plan on purchasing a ACP wheel but am unable to get two
: joystick ports working on my system.  I use the joystick port on the
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: >plugs. I plan on purchasing a ACP wheel but am unable to get two
: >joystick ports working on my system.  I use the joystick port on the
: >sound/cd rom board, and have no problems.  The port on the IDE
: >controller card does't seem to work, no matter where I jumper the

You don't need 2 ports, your single port on your gamecard must
support 2 joysticks. Any soundblaster card gameport should support
this. The "2 joystick" ACP only uses one game PORT it just uses the
joy1 x-axis as the wheel and the joy2 x-axis as the pedals. As said
earlier, the new ACP uses only 1 joystick (x and y).
Enjoy your wheel!
Darrel
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