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Originally Posted by Charlie
Yep, it was plugged into the A3000's serial port! There's a Relocatable Module (RM) ( sort-of an add-on OS chunk for RiscOS ) that allowed the port to be a game-pad connector instead.
I guess the reason for your question & the reason I can't find an XP-equivalent driver is one of those: "x86 hardware isn't as flexible as <choose your platform> hardware" situations...  |
I wonder..
Perhaps they set cd, rx, tx, dtr, dsr to 0 (or as input if it's like that) in the chip that's connected to the serial port and then cts to 1. The joystick will pull the first five signals up and you can go and read the statuses.
Here's some documentation for the PC UART chip..
http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/serial-uart.html Might not be so simple with a chip like that abstracting the connection. Actually looking at the register lists it will be quite a pain to get it working. :-)
It's definitely more straightforward to use parallel on the pc, thus projects like ntpad came about..