Posted by matt(v) on October 01, 1999 at 06:05:30:
In Reply to: Thanks for the advice posted by Matt M. on October 01, 1999 at 05:39:04:
If you want that many inputs (4 joysticks and 20 buttons) you may need to look at something a little more exotic.
A keyboard encoder would offer the number if inputs you want if you use it in matrix mode but there would be some ghost/jamming problems.
The only way I can think of getting that much information into a PC is through the paralell port, something like this multi playstation addaptor should do the trick
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~snandhe/megatap.htm
But it has plenty of problems too. First off you need to hack 4 playstation pads to arcade controls, then build the "megatap interface". And it will only work with games that support a speical version of Dpadpro designed to work with the megatap.
Hmmm, will have to think about this some more.
Matt(v)
PS D&D shadow over mystara is the greatest, anyone who played (A LOT) should be able to figure out my nick