Bernard Leclerc (bleclerc++at++cats.cae.ca)
Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:58:15 -0400
> Has anybody used a Thrustmaster product with an SGI?
Yes, I've already interfaced a ThrustMaster Joystick, Throttle and Rudder
Pedals to a SGI Onyx. ThrustMaster devices are aimed at the PC market - and so
are the demo programs supplied with them.
The joystick I interfaced had a built-in A/D converter, hence the output was a
simple serial interface using RS-232 type connector. However the connector was
not appropriate for a SGI Onyx so I had to build a small adapter cable. The
task was quite simple. If I remember well, the adapter cable was routing the
following 3 pins from the joystick to the Onyx:
Joystick pin 3 -----> Onyx pin 2
Joystick pin 2 -----> Onyx pin 3
Joystick pin 5 -----> Onyx pin 7
As you can see the adapter was quite simple. Once the joystick is wired to the
Onyx, the demos supplied by ThrustMaster should tell you how to read it on a
Unix workstation - as oppose to a PC.
A small note: I did this work back in 1993/1994 with the ThrustMaster devices
available at that moment. No need to say it may have changed.
Bye...
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