From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Two joysticks with Allegro
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 20:30:29 GMT
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On 2 Apr 1997 11:33:32 GMT, ellman AT xs4all DOT nl () wrote:

>In article <333db554 DOT 6062182 AT nntp DOT netcomuk DOT co DOT uk>,
>William McGugan <wmcgugan AT netcomuk DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>>Allegro seems to do everything I would want, except for reading two
>>joysticks. Can I use two joysticks with Allegro, or will I have to
>>write my own routines?
>
>Why stop at two joysticks?
>
>According to the Windoze 95 joystick configuration applet, up to 16 joysticks
...
>Just out of interest, what sort of cards enable you to use more than one
>Joystick? My SB16 only has one joystickport.

Yes; the standard joystick port supports two joysticks at once, and
also MIDI input and output. Creative supplied a MIDI/joystick
splitting cable with my AWE32; there also exist joystick splitters
allowing you to plug two ordinary joysticks in. Note that fancy
joysticks tend to use the second joystick's connections to provide
extra fire buttons, throttle levers, etc, so you can't use all these
features if you're using two joysticks at once. The splitters are,
IMHO, extortionately expensive - £20 here in the UK, I think. AFAIK
they consist of a joystick plug and two sockets, with the pins for
joystick 1 wired directly from the plug to one of the sockets, and the
pins for joystick 2 wired from the plug to the joystick 1 pins on the
second socket.

The second joystick is read in much the same way as the first
(unfortunately ;) ). Extending Allegro's joystick routines should be
fairly trivial.

-- 
George Foot