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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
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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?

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