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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: carvedeye on July 09, 2011, 07:27:01 PM

Title: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: carvedeye on July 09, 2011, 07:27:01 PM

Hi all i am planning on purchasing a mediator from amigakit and was wondering if i can use the gameport on the compatible sound blaster card that i have as i have a gamepad with this connection?

Tia

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: carvedeye on July 09, 2011, 10:31:00 PM

Any1?

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: mechy on July 10, 2011, 01:23:41 AM

Quote from: carvedeye;648852

Any1?

goto http://www.elbox.com and check card compatibility list. to my knowledge the joyport isn't used.not just any cards work.

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: Lando on July 10, 2011, 02:17:25 AM

No, there is no driver for the gameport on soundcards used with mediator.  Even if there was there are no games which support PC joysticks.  Amiga games all read from the joystick port hardware registers directly.

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: Zac67 on July 10, 2011, 10:15:18 AM

You can use an adapter to plug a 15-pin joystick into the Amiga side.

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: carvedeye on July 10, 2011, 08:35:53 PM

Quote from: Zac67;648903

You can use an adapter to plug a 15-pin joystick into the Amiga side.

Really? any chance of a link?

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: desiv on July 10, 2011, 09:14:11 PM

Quote from: carvedeye;648958

Really? any chance of a link?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pc+joystick+amiga

desiv  ;-)

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: yssing on July 11, 2011, 12:25:49 AM

Well I guess, that in theory it should be possible to write some sort of a lowleve.library that uses that port instead of the amiga port. But its only a guess and I have no clue how or if it is possible at all.

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: fishy_fiz on July 11, 2011, 03:32:10 AM

It is possible to use gameport joysticks/pads on amiga, but if memory serves me correctly you need to use newlowlevel.lib as opposed to "normal" lowlevel.lib. Additionally I think it can only be used with openpci sb driver. Once its set up though it should work fine with anything that typically can use lowlevel.lib.

Sorry for the vagueness of the response, its been a while and my memory is a little foggy :)

Title: Re: Mediator and sound card game port?
Post by: matthey on July 11, 2011, 03:46:37 AM

@fishy_fiz
That's pretty close to what my foggy memory recalls too ;)...

http://aminet.net/driver/input/NewLowLevel.lha