flyboyz wrote in Sat Feb 11, 2023 3:27 pm:Sure newer USB is simpler but are you saying you have never seen any kind of serial of llel port rudder pedals ?
personally speaking, no, i have not knowingly and physically seen them... everything i knew of all went through the joystick/midi port(s)... but i should also add that i never tried to have and use any pedals other than what were already connected to the machines i played that had them... i have sold many steering wheels, pedals, and yokes in my 30+ years in the industry but never looked deeper into them... the buyers just plugged them into their joystick cards and played on...
the above is also not actually related to my main point which is that the way today's systems work, they enumerate the devices connected to USB much easier than how things were done when serial and parallel ports were more of a thing... for instance, i spent several weeks trying to get my old joystick that connected via the old joystick/midi port to be recognized and i had absolutely no luck at all... so i dropped the $$$ for a new USB connected T160000M, plugged it in and was immediately able to use it... on the same note, i also got an Xbox One controller and i was able to do the same with it and all my other games... for FG, though, i had to create the XML file for it because there was not one already existing...
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