i’m looking for a pc game controller that connects inline with the keyboard and can have keyboard keys assigned to the buttons on the controller, a googling cant seem to find anything, and i know i’ve seen them before. any help?
Do you specifically need one that plugs into your keyboard port? Under Windows you can go into the game controller options (Control Panel -> Game Controllers) and assign whatever you want to each of the buttons on a controller; that’s how you customize them for different games. I would assume that there is something similar for other OSes.
i’ve never seen that in windows… it may be a feature of your specific controller or perhaps a windows xp feature?
Just make the keyboard into a game controller. No joystick, admittedly, but it might work for you.
Yes, it is in XP but I thought I remembered it from 98 as well. I don’t know about Vista.
It’s not my controller because the same panel is on my office computer which has never had a game controller of any type plugged into it.
IIRC joysticks for older OSes came with a configuration utility that let you assign keys to the various buttons but I don’t know if you could find one for an older system now.
Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
I think it might still be a driver feature of your game controller - unless you’re saying you have key emulation settings on the office machine. I haven’t had a game controller installed on this one here either, and I can open the ‘Game Controllers’ Control Panel applet, but there aren’t any options there relating to keyboard emulation.
Do you use this? This seems like it could be good interface for home theater PCs.
I use a Saitek joystick (X45, I think) that came with a utility that lets you configure the buttons however you want them. You usually configure one file for each game, then select the one you want before you load the game.
It’s actually two sizeable pieces (joystick + throttle), but it has as many buttons as you’d probably need to cover key sequences (it even has a tiny knob that can be used as a mouse). It also has a slide switch to select between three different configurations; I almost never need to use keyboard if I’m on the joystick.
It’s USB (and if you don’t have USB, getting a PCI card that does have it will be good for the old machine). I’m pretty sure I used it under '98 (though I always had problems with USB devices on my machine). I run 2000, and it works great on that.
I’m using it right now. The majority of everything that I’ve posted on this board over the last year has been typed on it. It’s just another keyboard so far as my fingers are concerned.