rec.autos.simulators

> My brother in law has an ACM gamecard that used to support 2 game
> devices under Windows 95 which he used for multiplayer games and enabled
> him to configure racing sims to use one game device and flight sims
> another with out all the reconfiguration hassle. Now he has upgraded to
> Windows 98 we can't get the card to support more that one game device at
> a time. We have disabled the gameport on his sound card and have the ACM
> card using both 0201 and 0209 memory addresses. When we run TMS Scope
> (DOS utility) it shows that both gameports and attached devices are
> working fine. We have tried everything that we can think of. He has a
> PII 333MHz, 64Mb memory, on board standard game/midi port and sound
> card....
> Please help. Thanks in advance,
> Paul

>My brother in law has an ACM gamecard that used to support 2 game
>devices under Windows 95 which he used for multiplayer games and enabled
>him to configure racing sims to use one game device and flight sims
>another with out all the reconfiguration hassle. Now he has upgraded to
>Windows 98 we can't get the card to support more that one game device at
>a time. We have disabled the gameport on his sound card and have the ACM
>card using both 0201 and 0209 memory addresses. When we run TMS Scope
>(DOS utility) it shows that both gameports and attached devices are
>working fine. We have tried everything that we can think of. He has a
>PII 333MHz, 64Mb memory, on board standard game/midi port and sound
>card....
>Please help. Thanks in advance,
>Paul

> Did you disable _both_ of the game ports? (eg soundcard/mb).

>My brother in law has an ACM gamecard that used to support 2 game

> The problem isn't the ACM Game Card or Windows 95/98.  The problem is that
> most games do not support the 0209 address.  If the games supported both
> 0209 and 0201, then you could hood two devices (i.e. wheel/pedals on one,
> joystick on the other) without going through configuration hassles and
> physically changing the connected device.  ARE YOU LISTENING GAME
> DEVELOPERS?

> Paul,

> You are incorrect.  Windows 98 allocates 0201 to 0209 as the resource
> input/output range for *** devices (same as Windows 95 did).  I have
> played around quite a bit with them...I have hooked a device up to the ACM
> card at 0201 and another device to the joystick port on my audio card using
> 0209.  The device was recognized by Windows 98 on the audio card joystick
> port at 0209 while simultaneously recognizing the device on the ACM card at
> 0201 (In other words...no conflicts were reported by windows)  As I said
> before...most games don't support 0209...Windows 95/98 does.

> I don't know if this will help with Windows, but here is the URL for
> Race Patch.  It allows the use of the 2nd port on the ACM for racing
> games.
> ftp://208.129.210.78/pub/library/utils/raceptch.exe

> % My brother in law has an ACM gamecard that used to support 2 game
> % devices under Windows 95 which he used for multiplayer games and enabled
> % him to configure racing sims to use one game device and flight sims
> % another with out all the reconfiguration hassle. Now he has upgraded to
> % Windows 98 we can't get the card to support more that one game device at
> % a time. We have disabled the gameport on his sound card and have the ACM
> % card using both 0201 and 0209 memory addresses. When we run TMS Scope
> % (DOS utility) it shows that both gameports and attached devices are
> % working fine. We have tried everything that we can think of. He has a
> % PII 333MHz, 64Mb memory, on board standard game/midi port and sound
> % card....
> % Please help. Thanks in advance,
> % Paul

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> Paul,

> I won't have time to write you a detailed explanation until this weekend.
> Keep in mind that even if you hook a controller to one ACM port at 0201 and
> another device to EITHER the second ACM port (at 0209) or the soundcard port
> at 0209; it is a big waste of time because 99 percent of the games don't
> support 0209...However, I have figured out a way to hook a device to the ACM
> card at 0201 and another device to the soundcard at 0201 and AVOID the
> Windows resource conflict.  You can then easily choose which controller to
> use without having to constantly hook-up and unhook devices.  Let me know if
> you would rather have these details.

>Paul,

>I won't have time to write you a detailed explanation until this weekend.
>Keep in mind that even if you hook a controller to one ACM port at 0201 and
>another device to EITHER the second ACM port (at 0209) or the soundcard
port
>at 0209; it is a big waste of time because 99 percent of the games don't
>support 0209...However, I have figured out a way to hook a device to the
ACM
>card at 0201 and another device to the soundcard at 0201 and AVOID the
>Windows resource conflict.  You can then easily choose which controller to
>use without having to constantly hook-up and unhook devices.  Let me know
if
>you would rather have these details.