rec.autos.simulators

by **Ed Barri** » Sat, 24 Sep 1994 01:01:16

Well, I hate to tell you, but if you read the manual it will tell you that
you need a gamecard with two gameports to use it. You can't use your SBP
joystick port. The good news is that you can get a game card for about 40
bucks. Good luck. C'ya

by **Barry Fen** » Sat, 24 Sep 1994 13:54:08

The Soundblaster Pro does have the capability for using two joysticks.
There are two separate inputs on the same port. Unfortunately, the ports
are too sensitive to processor speed, according to the manual. Thanks for
the reply...

by **Mike You** » Sat, 24 Sep 1994 09:24:49

>Subject: Re: Thrustmaster
>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 16:01:16 GMT

>>I just bought a Thrustmaster T1 and I'm having a hell of a time getting it
>>to recognise the gas and brake pedals. I'm using a Soundblaster II Pro card
>>(the old 8 bit one.) and using Gravtest and Gravutil that came with my
>>joystick, it doesn't seem to read the joystick port for "B" even though it
>>showed the second joystick in the controls menu in Indycar. I couldn't get
>>the numbers to change though when I tried to calibrate it.

>Well, I hate to tell you, but if you read the manual it will tell you that
>you need a gamecard with two gameports to use it. You can't use your SBP
>joystick port. The good news is that you can get a game card for about 40
>bucks. Good luck. C'ya

That's not true at all. They say two plugs don't mean much; it has to support
two joystick channels. If I weren't so lazy, I'd look up the exact wording for
you. I've got an SB16, and it works fine. I'm sure if I plugged it into my
wife's sbpro, it would work fine, too.

Mike.

by **anderson mark dav** » Mon, 26 Sep 1994 02:16:32

>>Well, I hate to tell you, but if you read the manual it will tell you that
>>you need a gamecard with two gameports to use it. You can't use your SBP
>>joystick port. The good news is that you can get a game card for about 40
>>bucks. Good luck. C'ya
>That's not true at all. They say two plugs don't mean much; it has to support
>two joystick channels. If I weren't so lazy, I'd look up the exact wording for
>you. I've got an SB16, and it works fine. I'm sure if I plugged it into my
>wife's sbpro, it would work fine, too.

Agreed. I am using the T1 on my SBPro just fine, thank you...

Mark

by **Thong P To** » Sat, 01 Oct 1994 07:36:26

>I just bought a Thrustmaster T1 and I'm having a hell of a time getting it
>to recognise the gas and brake pedals. I'm using a Soundblaster II Pro card

Barry,
Are you using it with ICR ?? If so, you might want to upgrade
your version of ICR to 1.04 or 1.05. When I first got ICR and the T1.
I had the same problem. Then I got ICR v1.04 and that fixed those
problems. Give it a shot.

Thong

by **Drew A. Spenc** » Sun, 02 Oct 1994 01:27:20

P Tong) writes:

> >I just bought a Thrustmaster T1 and I'm having a hell of a time getting it
> >to recognise the gas and brake pedals. I'm using a Soundblaster II Pro card

> Barry,
> Are you using it with ICR ?? If so, you might want to upgrade
> your version of ICR to 1.04 or 1.05. When I first got ICR and the T1.
> I had the same problem. Then I got ICR v1.04 and that fixed those
> problems. Give it a shot.

> Thong

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When I first purchased my T1, it worked fine with ICR, but had
problems with WC with calibration of the pedals. As it turns
out, the problem is that your NOT supposed to use the little
adapter that comes with the T1 with the SoundBlaster. Of
course, the docs that came with the T1 explained this, but I
was a little anxious to try it out. When I plugged the
T1 into the SB directly I had to re-calibrate IC but both now
work great.

I wonder if Trustmaster will come out with a custom package
for the Nascar simulator with a bus steering wheel, a spitoon,
and a 3' shifter that you bolt to the floor...;-)

Hope this helps...
Drew