Mousestick

[Elmo Putney]

I've been playing Wings recently and getting a bit frustrated with the controls - with a digital stick its hard to target, I also notice you can use the mouse, however my mouse is old and "sticky" and there is no self centring.

Back in the day I had a Gravis mouse stick for exactly this reason....games that supported analogue mouse control but didn't support an analogue stick. I think Indy 500 was one such game. The Gravis emulated mouse input but as a joystick.

Gravis Mousesticks are rare beasts these days so I was wondering if anyone knows of a widget or GIT project out there that takes an analogue stick as input and spits out a mouse like signal. It shouldn't be to hard to do with an arduido or similar. Probably within my capabilities but not within my amount of spare time.

[lesta_smsc]

Maybe this might help: I have just purchased a PSX to Amiga adaptor that let's you use controller as a mouse?

[Elmo Putney]

It depends how it does it, there were 2 modes on the gravis:

1. The position of the stick was an absolute position in the screen, i.e. if you let go of the stick the pointer always returns to the origin.

2. The stick position was proportional to the speed of the pointer, when you let go of the stick the pointer stops wherever you accelerated it to.

The first mode is whats needed for most mouse->stick games.

What does your widget do? Im guessing 2.

[lesta_smsc]

It's this one:

http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...7&d=1273123900

[Elmo Putney]

Originally Posted by lesta_smsc

It's this one:

http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...7&d=1273123900

Thanks, don't think that tells me how it's been implemented, logically the wrong way as joystick position = pointer speed would be the most useful in a normal gui environment.

Someone has done a digital joy -> mouse arduino project, that would be a useful starting point. Still telling myself I don't have the time!!!

https://github.com/asig/amiga-mouse-adapter

[Kin Hell]

Originally Posted by lesta_smsc

It's this one:

http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?...7&d=1273123900

Your link bounces me back to this thread?

Playstation controller to Amiga....

[Elmo Putney]

Originally Posted by Kin Hell

Your link bounces me back to this thread?

Playstation controller to Amiga....

Its a pdf, on my phone if open as new tab it downloads it, but caused some initial confusion for me too.

[Photon]

Yes, what you need is an emulator of the exact behavior you want, including self-centering even when leaving the stick in the same position, which will require sending counter-movements when the joystick is untouched until zero.

The port itself can receive these movements and if the game supports mouse the movements will be as if you moved the mouse the same way.