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Title: No Joy.....stick
Post by: MacLeod on December 31, 2002, 03:19:44 PM

I just go a new computer, GForce 4, Pentium 4 with 2.4 gigs. But when I got home, there was one flaw, no gameport for my joystick!!!!! I am trying to fly with my mouse, but I am in a plane, the mouse takes over the flight controls, but I can not move the mouse pointer if I need to press buttons on the clipboard while in flight. Is there a way to switch between mouse moving pointer and mouse steering plane?
Thanks.

Title: No Joy.....stick
Post by: bloodstain on December 31, 2002, 03:37:44 PM

I would recomend getting a USB joysick and use the joystick to fly!
The mouse is not very good for flying.

Title: Re: No Joy.....stick
Post by: Montezuma on December 31, 2002, 03:41:17 PM

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Originally posted by MacLeod
I just go a new computer, GForce 4, Pentium 4 with 2.4 gigs. But when I got home, there was one flaw, no gameport for my joystick!!!!! I am trying to fly with my mouse, but I am in a plane, the mouse takes over the flight controls, but I can not move the mouse pointer if I need to press buttons on the clipboard while in flight. Is there a way to switch between mouse moving pointer and mouse steering plane?
Thanks.

I don't know how to fly with just the mouse, but your new sweet rig has USB ports.

Go get a USB stick.  If you have an older gameport stick, find a USB-gameport adapter, like this one.

Radio Shack (http://www.joy-stick.net/reviews/other/usbadapt.htm)

Title: No Joy.....stick
Post by: MacLeod on December 31, 2002, 05:05:46 PM

I have to use the mouse until I get a USB stick, or a port->usb converter sometime within the week.

Title: No Joy.....stick
Post by: fuzeman on December 31, 2002, 05:19:33 PM

I'm not positive about this but I vaguely remember a post saying if you hold the right mouse button down, you should be able to use the left button for appropriate mouse clickings.
Again, I'm not positive but worth a try.

fuzeman

Title: Re: Re: No Joy.....stick
Post by: icemaw on December 31, 2002, 05:24:22 PM

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Originally posted by Montezuma
I don't know how to fly with just the mouse, but your new sweet rig has USB ports.

Go get a USB stick.  If you have an older gameport stick, find a USB-gameport adapter, like this one.

Radio Shack (http://www.joy-stick.net/reviews/other/usbadapt.htm)

 Only thing is if your using windows xp you will run into problems gameport type joysticks or ubs adapted gameport joysticks. I went tru that when I upgraded to XP.

Title: No Joy.....stick
Post by: jonnyb on January 02, 2003, 09:42:53 AM

click and hold the right mouse button down.  This enables you to move the pointer around.