Re: [Qemu-devel] Joystick, gameport, midi, PC speaker and better sound cards support

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Andrew Francis wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:03:03AM -0500, use.reply-to.address@domn.net wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'd like to know if joystick support is being considered for inclusion into
>>qemu someday ?
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>*snip*
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>>for the host side of business , in the case of linux the js* interface takes
>>care of everything and is surprisingly easy to use (I made a program fully
>>joystick aware with the "gambas" language in less than a day)
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>The SDL library (already used by qemu for keyboard/mouse/display) has
>joystick support. I had a go at implementing joystick support a while
>back, but it doesn't work yet - my test case, TIE Fighter on MS-DOS,
>responded initially but would stop responding to movement/buttons
>halfway through the calibration.
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>I was actually planning to dust it off this coming weekend and try to
>get it working. If anyone else is really eager to have a go before then,
>let me know and I'll throw a patch together.
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I could give that patch a try if it works against recent cvs , I'm not 
well versed in C so I can't be of much help there , but I sure have a 
lot of games to test it with