Hello All!

Recently broke out the old Flightstick Pro from the basement to get me back into the Wing Commander series. Its the gameport version, so via the generosity of my younger sibling, its connected through a "Super Joy Box 7" gameport to USB adaptor.

I have calibrated it through windows, and edited the DosBox config file to use "ch" as my joystick. the issue Im having is that I cant use the throttle or hat switch in game.

I get that back in the gameport days there was a limit to the number of buttons, so the hatswitch sends a signal that looks like a number of button presses at once. So, for instance, hat right is buttons one, two, and four according to windows. Windows also doesnt see the hat switch, just the button presses.

Any ideas as to what I can do to enable these features? Windows apparently sees the stuff, and mapping the hat positions in DosBox wont get me anywhere, since windows will only pass along button presses, not the hat itself. Im guessing my only hope is that Wing Commander has the ability somewhere to determine that pushing all of the buttons at once is a single command, but honestly thats a WAG on my part.

Any ideas?

Have you already tried DOSBox' Mapper to bind the joystick's signal, or what Windows makes of it, to the according DOSBox event? The Mapper opens by pressing Ctrl+F1 in-game.