A friend of mine is an engineering student he asked me to post this message on his behalf:
He’d appreciate any online/offline material you can point him to.
He never asks me for help with this kind of stuff so I’m assuming he’s already exhausted all of his usual resources.
I am not sure what you mean by “inductive”. AFAIK standard analog MIDI/Gameport joysticks just use a couple of variable resistors.
http://www.ctips.com/game.html
http://sailor.teemingmillions.com/images/gameport.htm
http://www.monmouth.com/~lw4750/pin_charts.htm
Reply from engineering student:
Armed with this extra bit of information I was able to find the following link for him:
http://www.liftlink.com/ProdServ/productreviews/index2.cfm?articleID=1036
I don’t think he needs much more. Maybe a couple slightly more technical links.
Sorry, I should have asked him about this stuff before posting.
You know what? I don’t think I’m doing his dirty work anymore, if he wants Dopers to help him he can get his own damned account 