th_her:
Hello experts,
i found an old flight controller joystick like this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/PC-FLIGHT-FORCE-PRO-SV-241-ANALOG-JOYSTICK-4-BUTTON-includes-Decent-CD-/223068420335
It has a gameport connector and i want to turn it to usb via a sparkfun pro micro (=mini leonardo).
A gameport can transmit 4 analog and 4 digital signals. The joystick has 5 Buttons and a coolie-hat (8 more buttons) besides x,y axis and throttle.
Does anybody know how this is internally wired (in the joystick). I only can read out 2 Buttons, x,y and throttle.
Thanks in advance.
For some reason, I never threw this folder away.
Back in 1992, I was playing with the game port to use as a voltmeter. A couple of copies of the Microsoft C are in the folder , along with the official IBM Game Controller Adapter reference document.
I do not have anything on the external device to connect to the game port.
"When a button is pressed, it is read as a 0". "Software should be aware that these buttons are not debounced in hardware".
"The Joystick position is indicated by a potentiometer for each coordinate. Each potentiometer has a range of 0 to 100k ohms that varies the time constant for each of the four one-shots."
The connector is 15 pins, as follows:
1 - +5
2 - Button 4
3 - Position 0, a pot, I assume
4 - Ground
5 - Ground
6 - Position 1
7 - Button 5
8 - + 5
9 - + 5
10- Button 6
11-Position 2
12-Ground
13- Position 3
14- Button 7
15- +5
Does that offer any help?
Paul