Problem with Amiga 4 Player Joystick Adaptor on the PC
 

Hi

I have got hold of a new Amiga 4 Player Joystick Adaptor for my PCs parellel port, allowing me to use Amiga joysticks.

I have had lots problems with it but I am now at the stage where it is all installed correctly and WinUAE and other emulators are recognising it. However it isn't calibrated properly, characters leap around randomly and there seems to be no actual input from the joystick.

After lots of discussion [thanks blackcornflake ! ) it may be down to the fact that is tries to put the parellel port into something called SPP mode. It suggests in the FAQ that I put my port into SPP mode via the BIOS, however my BIOS only has various kinds of ECP and EPP modes, with no mention of an SPP option.

Can anyone make any suggestions as I have reached a dead-end.

thanks

In the BIOS you should have 4 options. SPP, EPP, ECP, ECP + EPP. If SPP is missing try jut EPP or ECP, but if neither of those work then you are screwed (untill you get a new motherboard anyway).

I have a 4-player adapter that was used with bomberman stored away somewhere.

Never knew it could double as a joystick adapter with WinUAE. Might have to give it a go sometime.

Regarding trying to get it to work, perhaps if you're running WinXP issues might arise.

I am running XP. There is no SPP optiona nd I have tried every other option.

Perhaps I should have specified "useful suggestions".

:)

:help

You have no options other than a new motherboard. End of, by the look of it. Must be a crap board to not even support "Standard Printer Port" mode though.

Well it cost me nothing [the laptop] so you can't moan.

However it is a little dissapointing.

Oh well...

hi,
i had the same problem with my 4 player adaptor - but after i set the bios parallel port option to ECP + EPP it worked perfectly.

the only thing that doesnt work yet is the autofire function of my good old competition pro

It is in fact working now. I installed WIN XP Pro on the desktop and it works fine which is great!

I think the laptop wasn't up to it, it seems to be incompatiable with a lot of things.

I use PPJoy and it works great. Hmm.. i remember something about XP and par.port access problems which could be solved with userport.exe.

Anyone knows where I can get a 4player a adapter ? (new ou used :))

I ordered mine from a company in Germany a few months back. I don't have the link I'm afraid but Blackcornflake gave it to me so ask him.

Vesalia Computer

Though I don't know if they have any in stock or not atm.

I've made mine myself in 2 hours...
Just a few wires to connect to eachother - Really simple actually :)

Here you've got the layout:
http://www.geocities.com/deonvdw/Doc...iga4Player.htm

and here's the driver if you want to connect it to your PC (main homepage):
http://www.geocities.com/deonvdw/Docs/PPJoyMain.htm

I got it from Vesalia today!!

Hooked up with a Honey-Bee CD32 pad.... It works great !! But sadly only with one button, is there any way to use more than one ? Any setup or something...

It costed only 5,64Euros :) (and 4 was in shipping hehe)

hehehe...Get if you dont have it yet :)

Amiga 4 Player Adapter
 

Hi @all,
A few days ago I got my amiga 4 player adapter and I cannot get it to work under win xp. The driver I use is PPJoy. After having installed it I tried to configure an old JoyBoard but the driver didn´t even recognise the digital signals. After fiddling around a little bit I had it recognize the axes at least. But the Button still didn´t work.
Now I am at a stage where I can fully use the joystick in that neat game controller application (winxp -> control panel -> gamecontroller).
Both axes and the button seem to work but only in the gamecontroller config app. When I try to use that joystick with WinUAE or CCs64 I miss my button. Under CCs64 the buttons was recognized once, but that was without making any configuration changes. X- and y-axis still work great but how do you play Galaga without a fire button? :)
I´ve got two of these Joyboards and they work perfectly with both my Amiga and C64.
One hint: There´s an LED on my Joyboard that is lit when you press fire. This one works both on amiga and C64 but not when I connect the joystick to my pc.
Could the problem be that the voltage on the PC´s LPT-Port is too low? Maybe there´s a specific threshold that has to be passed for a clear 1 / 0 signal.
Is there anyone with the same problem?
Can anyone help me?

Do you have this problem with BOTH 4-player adaptor inputs (ie with both sockets)?

Amiga 4 player problem
 

Yes, indeed. The port doesn´t matter.
The really weird thing is that winxp drivers and configuration program acknowledge a button press (a crosshair in a box for the movement of the joystick and a red lamp for every button that is lit when you hit the button, remember?). It´s the same with both joysticks on either port of the 4 player adapter.
Personally I would say that a clear "button is pressed"-signal from direct input is enough to make a joystick button work with any directx based application. But my system does not share that opinion :)
As I said in my previous post that button worked once for about 10 seconds with CCs64 and then bailed out.
Then I don´t understand why PPJoy didn´t detect any axis movement in the first time and then suddenly came up with: "Hey, you moved the stick, man! But I don´t like your button" without me changing the settings. Then PPjoy detected the button, again without me having changed anything. And that´s where I am. PPJoy and win xp game controller app detect the button, all the other applications don´t. That seems like a "software loose contact" to me :) Any idea?

Yep, definitely a loose contact in your software. Take that program apart & check all the soldering.
:cheese

Which applications other than winUAE and CCS64 did you use? Try STeem. STeem is the perfect example on how to set up a joystick config in an emulator.