I've read through a number of these posts, so I'm feeling pretty good that someone here can help me. I was given a Compaq Deskpro EN, with a PIII 450 and 96 MB of Ram. The system has Win95 installed, it never had DOS so the autoexec.bat and config.sys files are blank.
I've got two joysticks that I used on my old PC (an aging P133) and both of them work fine. One is a Gravis Analog Pro (I think) and the other is a Gravis Blackhawk digital.
The machine has the ESS sound Card built into the board and there is not a gameport available. I went over to CompUSA and bought an ISA expansion card that includes 2 serial, one parallel and one gameport. I installed it with no trouble, but Win95 didn't find the gameport. However, I went into Add Hardware in the Control panel and added the generic Joystick Gameport. I shut down, plugged in the digital joystick, rebooted, ran the gravis install program and 95 deteced the joystick. However when I went into Prophecy, nothing happened. I checked the options screen inside Prophecy and made sure that Joystick was choosen and tried again. Still no luck. Exited Prophecy restarted, no response. Rebooted, no response.
Next I installed a couple other games I had (the X-Wing collector's series mostly retouched versions of X-Wing and TIE Fighter). The digital worked with those, though I had some trouble with the calibration.
Next I installed Privateer2 (the later one that is supposed to be more Win95 friendly) Did the same series of reboots, but still the same problem as with Prophecy, no joystick. Installed Secret Ops. Same routine, same problem.
Tried the analog joystick. Works with X-wing and TIE, not with Prophecy, Priv2 or Secret Ops. Snagged an old sound card. Disbaled the sound card settings for the current card, installed old card. Sound works, joystick works with the other games, not with the Origin Games.
Started to install the orignal Privateer this morning but forgot about the hoops to get it running and didn't have enough time to configure the boot files before I headed in to work. I'll maybe get to it tonight, or I'll try installing WCIV or the Kilrahti Saga and see if I have trouble with those. (Large hard drive, btw.)
A couple additional notes, I do have 95 version B which sort of supports USB and I have successfully attached an Intel USB camera to the computer. I've taken the camera out thinking maybe there was some conflict (there aren't any other devices (printers, zip drives, etc. connected except for a modem.) but still no joystick response. It shows up in the Joystick control panel, and with the anaolg, I've used both the 2 axis 4 button option and the Gravis analog pro.
Finally, I've debated about moving to Win98 and trying a USB joystick. Has anyone had any luck with them? Before I do that, any suggestions on this problem? Your help would be greatly appreciated. The Prophecy Gold CD has been sitting around the house for a while, the wife kept coming up with ways to spend my money before I could get a new machine so I'm anxious to play these.
I've got two joysticks that I used on my old PC (an aging P133) and both of them work fine. One is a Gravis Analog Pro (I think) and the other is a Gravis Blackhawk digital.
The machine has the ESS sound Card built into the board and there is not a gameport available. I went over to CompUSA and bought an ISA expansion card that includes 2 serial, one parallel and one gameport. I installed it with no trouble, but Win95 didn't find the gameport. However, I went into Add Hardware in the Control panel and added the generic Joystick Gameport. I shut down, plugged in the digital joystick, rebooted, ran the gravis install program and 95 deteced the joystick. However when I went into Prophecy, nothing happened. I checked the options screen inside Prophecy and made sure that Joystick was choosen and tried again. Still no luck. Exited Prophecy restarted, no response. Rebooted, no response.
Next I installed a couple other games I had (the X-Wing collector's series mostly retouched versions of X-Wing and TIE Fighter). The digital worked with those, though I had some trouble with the calibration.
Next I installed Privateer2 (the later one that is supposed to be more Win95 friendly) Did the same series of reboots, but still the same problem as with Prophecy, no joystick. Installed Secret Ops. Same routine, same problem.
Tried the analog joystick. Works with X-wing and TIE, not with Prophecy, Priv2 or Secret Ops. Snagged an old sound card. Disbaled the sound card settings for the current card, installed old card. Sound works, joystick works with the other games, not with the Origin Games.
Started to install the orignal Privateer this morning but forgot about the hoops to get it running and didn't have enough time to configure the boot files before I headed in to work. I'll maybe get to it tonight, or I'll try installing WCIV or the Kilrahti Saga and see if I have trouble with those. (Large hard drive, btw.)
A couple additional notes, I do have 95 version B which sort of supports USB and I have successfully attached an Intel USB camera to the computer. I've taken the camera out thinking maybe there was some conflict (there aren't any other devices (printers, zip drives, etc. connected except for a modem.) but still no joystick response. It shows up in the Joystick control panel, and with the anaolg, I've used both the 2 axis 4 button option and the Gravis analog pro.
Finally, I've debated about moving to Win98 and trying a USB joystick. Has anyone had any luck with them? Before I do that, any suggestions on this problem? Your help would be greatly appreciated. The Prophecy Gold CD has been sitting around the house for a while, the wife kept coming up with ways to spend my money before I could get a new machine so I'm anxious to play these.
