Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!voder!pyramid!ctnews!starfish!cdold From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Info on Controlling Joy Sticks Message-ID: <720@starfish.Convergent.COM> Date: 18 Sep 88 16:27:24 GMT References: <421@pigs.UUCP> Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA Lines: 24 From article <421@pigs.UUCP>, by haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum): > In article <712@starfish.Convergent.COM> cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes: >>In article <637@dinl.mmc.UUCP>, noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren) writes: >> direction on how to read joy stick values on a PC in C or assembly? >>INT 15H, AH=84H - Joystick Support > i tried this on my Wyse 3216 running SCO Xenix and it didn't work. why? > because that was a DOS call. > now if someone would like to give the correct answer, i'd be most grateful. > [ ps - i didn't really try it. ;-) ] Oh, so quick to flame theory, so slow to try it... A DOS call??? Why is it that I found it in my Compaq 386 Hardware Tech Ref? I believe that it is a BIOS ROM call, since it appears in chapter 4, "SOFTWARE ASPECTS AND BIOS" Besides, you aren't the one that asked for it. I already got e-mail from Charles Noren telling me that it, and the c-source that I mailed to him, worked. Of course he might be running DOS. And just a parting shot....... Why don't you change your .signature so it fits on a line? -- Clarence A Dold - cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (408) 435-5274 ...pyramid!ctnews!mitisft!professo!dold P.O.Box 6685, San Jose, CA 95150-6685