Joystick Switcher

Looking for joy stick switch box. Only found one (CH products). Will this CH product switch between TM f16/tqs/rcs and TM nascar pro racing wheel? Are there any other places to look for a similar device? Also is comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim NG broke? Havent gotten any new posts for several days. Reply to either this NG or email Appreciate any help. -- Don Farrington

> Looking for joy stick switch box. Only found one (CH products). Will > this CH product switch between TM f16/tqs/rcs and TM nascar pro racing > wheel? Are there any other places to look for a similar device? It might work, but the thing you'll need to keep in mind when dealing with a Thrustmaster FLCS is that it must always receive power or you'll get keyboard errors. Not all joystick switchers know to keep power to the FLCS, so you'll need to ask CH if theirs does. Trips

Havent been able to check on power to stick function on CH Products Joyswitch but have found a Lead Pursuit product Joyswitch Multiport which indicates that it supplys one powered port which may be used for WCS Mark II. Guess Ill have to wait for reply from CH Products. Thanks for response. > It might work, but the thing you'll need to keep in mind when dealing > with a Thrustmaster FLCS is that it must always receive power or you'll > get keyboard errors. Not all joystick switchers know to keep power to > the FLCS, so you'll need to ask CH if theirs does. > Trips -- Don

Check www.joyswitch.com for a real joystick switcher. I have one and use it to switch between my F-22 Pro/TQS/RCS and T2, no problem. Of course I believe most of the FF wheels will not work with this unit. So you may need to get a wheel that connects to the serial port. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com >Looking for joy stick switch box. Only found one (CH products). Will >this CH product switch between TM f16/tqs/rcs and TM nascar pro racing >wheel? Are there any other places to look for a similar device? >Also is comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim NG broke? Havent gotten any new >posts for several days. Reply to either this NG or email >Appreciate any help. >-- >Don Farrington

Thanks all! Just ordered two of the Lead Pursuit switchers.

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> Check www.joyswitch.com for a real joystick switcher. I have one > and use it to switch between my F-22 Pro/TQS/RCS and T2, > no problem. Of course I believe most of the FF wheels will not > work with this unit. So you may need to get a wheel that connects > to the serial port. > -- > Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. > cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com > >Looking for joy stick switch box. Only found one (CH products). Will > >this CH product switch between TM f16/tqs/rcs and TM nascar pro racing > >wheel? Are there any other places to look for a similar device? > >Also is comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim NG broke? Havent gotten any new > >posts for several days. Reply to either this NG or email > >Appreciate any help. > >-- > >Don Farrington

-- Don

I tried a J-Link turbo "Quickshot" Model QS-5845 because it appeared to have MIDI support. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work with the MS FF Wheel FF effects. Your mileage might vary... And with the "Joyswitch" (an older one though), I found a bit of experimentation and reference to the excellant www.joyswitch.com webpage was required to figure out a setting that would work with my CH Pro throttle/Combatstick TM RCS setup, and a TM Formula 2 wheel & pedals on the other. In the aircraft setups, all the gear wasn't getting powered sufficiently. I ended up with the throttle and stick on circuit 1, and the pedals on a separate pedal circuit. The driving wheel and pedals worked OK on the same circuit (no adapter). - Matt

I use an Alpha Data Alpha Quad 4 way auto switch with a TM F22- F16 TQS and pedals, a wheel and a standard joystick with no probs at all. Highly recommended and only about 20 Craig http://www.btinternet.com/~the.solicitors Great Song Lyrics, No2 Cheap Lovers Make Expensive Wives. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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>Havent been able to check on power to stick function on CH Products >Joyswitch but have found a Lead Pursuit product Joyswitch Multiport >which indicates that it supplys one powered port which may be used for >WCS Mark II. Guess Ill have to wait for reply from CH Products. >Thanks for response. >> It might work, but the thing you'll need to keep in mind when dealing >> with a Thrustmaster FLCS is that it must always receive power or you'll >> get keyboard errors. Not all joystick switchers know to keep power to >> the FLCS, so you'll need to ask CH if theirs does. >> Trips >-- >Don

>Thanks all! Just ordered two of the Lead Pursuit switchers. I've had mine for 2 years with no problems at all. I forgot to answer this part... No the flightsim NG is alive & well. Perhaps your ISP is having NG problems? -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com >> >Appreciate any help. >> >-- >> >Don Farrington >-- >Don

It works well for me, the Quickshot and the MS FF wheel--as long as nothing else is attached to the other ports. Very fussy. I don't think it's really that great. On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:52:20 -0600, "Matthew V. Jessick"

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>I tried a J-Link turbo "Quickshot" Model QS-5845 >because it appeared to have MIDI support. >Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work with the >MS FF Wheel FF effects. >Your mileage might vary... >And with the "Joyswitch" (an older one though), >I found a bit of experimentation and reference to the >excellant www.joyswitch.com webpage was required to figure >out a setting that would work with my CH Pro throttle/Combatstick >TM RCS setup, and a TM Formula 2 wheel & pedals on the other. >In the aircraft setups, all the gear wasn't getting powered sufficiently. >I ended up with the throttle and stick on circuit 1, and the >pedals on a separate pedal circuit. The driving wheel and >pedals worked OK on the same circuit (no adapter). >- Matt

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>> Looking for joy stick switch box. Only found one (CH products). Will >> this CH product switch between TM f16/tqs/rcs and TM nascar pro racing >> wheel? Are there any other places to look for a similar device? >It might work, but the thing you'll need to keep in mind when dealing >with a Thrustmaster FLCS is that it must always receive power or you'll >get keyboard errors. Not all joystick switchers know to keep power to >the FLCS, so you'll need to ask CH if theirs does. >Trips

Won't guarantee it'll work with the TM gear, but my Suncom HOTAS setup (also has a keyboard passthrough) works fine with the CH switchbox, and always has power to it even when it's not the selected stick. Not sure if it has all 4 ports powered all the time, but I know the #1 port is. This thing is GREAT, especially when using the included utility to switch between the various joystick setups in Win 95/98. This utility sits in your system tray, and lets you switch between all your different setups on the fly with a few mouse-clicks. So you switch from your flightsim setup to your driving wheel simply by pressing a button on the wheel, right clicking on the utility icon and selecting the wheel's saved calibration from the menu. I have my flightsim setup, a NASCAR Pro, AND a Gravis Gamepad Pro all hooked in (Rennaisance gamer here <g>) - and this device is invaluable. Well worth the $25, IMHO. -- Ken Go #43 and #44 "If I went 'round claiming I was Emperor because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away" - peasant volksy (at) geocities (dot) com volksy (at) yahoo (dot) com