From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: Reading Joystick port
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:40:08 +1000, Peter M <peterem AT pacific DOT net DOT au>
wrote:

>The code inportb(0x201) will correctly work when running under as a DOS
>box in W98, but when I reboot to DOS from W98, it fails to read the
>status and continually returns 0xFF.  The only possible solution I have
>seen is a reference to writing out to the port before reading it (though
>I suspect that this just to prep the positional controllers), but this
>did not work.

Could also be that your joystick may be compatible only with Microsoft
DirectInput, and that Windows is emulating the joystick port.

From what I've heard, you're supposed to write 1's to all directional
bits you're going to read and then write 0's to those same bits.

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