ms6073
01-08-2002, 09:50 AM
LAST EDITED ON Jan-08-02 AT 09:51AM (EDT)[p]I posted this in the FS2002 forum as well:
Need some help from all of our computer guru's here. I purchased the Suncom SFS Dual throttles and an SFS (budget) Flight Controller from EB last week. I also got a Game Port to USB adapter from Radio Shack as suggested in another thread in this forum. Problem is, I can only get the throttles to work as a single and not a double unit. When I configure it for dual operation, with the throttle levers retarded to the detent, the thrust reversers deploy until I advance the throttle to about mid range!
Okay, now here is my question, can someone advise or theorize what would happen, assuming that the pots in the joystick are compatible, if I take all the circuitry from a low cost multi-button USB joystick and transfer it to the throttles? Using this hybrid jooystick, wouldnt this allow me to map the engine 1 and engine 2 throttle axis to the X and Y axis of the hybrid joystick? In contemplating this idea, the only snag that I can imagine is how Windows (98SE and 2000 SP2) would interpret these axis' in the Gaming Options calibration applet. It seems to me that the X/Y axis work such that an increase/decrease in one axis is typically associated with a corresponding decrease in the other axis (i.e. stick forward and right or aft and left)! Now I know fom experience of dissaseembling another joystick that if the pots are incorrectly inserted (backwards) then Windows does not have a problem with it but I have not tried the opposing axis theory as I am suggesting here. Any of you cockpit afficonados care to add some conjecture?
Thanks,
Michael
Need some help from all of our computer guru's here. I purchased the Suncom SFS Dual throttles and an SFS (budget) Flight Controller from EB last week. I also got a Game Port to USB adapter from Radio Shack as suggested in another thread in this forum. Problem is, I can only get the throttles to work as a single and not a double unit. When I configure it for dual operation, with the throttle levers retarded to the detent, the thrust reversers deploy until I advance the throttle to about mid range!
Okay, now here is my question, can someone advise or theorize what would happen, assuming that the pots in the joystick are compatible, if I take all the circuitry from a low cost multi-button USB joystick and transfer it to the throttles? Using this hybrid jooystick, wouldnt this allow me to map the engine 1 and engine 2 throttle axis to the X and Y axis of the hybrid joystick? In contemplating this idea, the only snag that I can imagine is how Windows (98SE and 2000 SP2) would interpret these axis' in the Gaming Options calibration applet. It seems to me that the X/Y axis work such that an increase/decrease in one axis is typically associated with a corresponding decrease in the other axis (i.e. stick forward and right or aft and left)! Now I know fom experience of dissaseembling another joystick that if the pots are incorrectly inserted (backwards) then Windows does not have a problem with it but I have not tried the opposing axis theory as I am suggesting here. Any of you cockpit afficonados care to add some conjecture?
Thanks,
Michael