Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick, Gamepad..

Keyboard:


Wout Mertens' Guide To Keyboard Programming v1.1 - by Wout Merten


This is a really comprehensive guide to programming the keyboard. It covers many aspects of decoding the keyboard input, as well as describing the hardware protocol. Great stuff. Does anyone know where I can get the files that came with this?

Programming the Keyboard


This short article explains what it takes to install an interrupt handler and catch activity. It explains how to decode multibyte keys and gives some source in Turbo Pascal...

The Keyboard Interface Tutorial


Very thorough explaination of how the Keyboard works and how to interface with it. Includes descriptions of DOS interrupts, BIOS interrupts, and of course, direct port interfacing.

Mouse:


Programming the Microsoft Mouse


Describes how to write custom mouse handlers for Microsoft mice. It goes into depth and even describes the protocol used and the interrupts to hook.

Programming the Microsoft Mouse - take 2 - by bri, Mark Feldman


This is a relatively simple reference text, describing all of the int 33h services, but it also touches on programming the mouse in supervga mode, or otherwise when you cannot use the dos mouse driver...

Programmer's Reference For the Genius Mouse Driver


As the title suggests, this is everything that you need to know to interface with the Genius mouse... Including graphic and text mode cursors, basic mouse functions, and a complete reference to the mouse services.

Using two Mice on one PC for games - by Lennart Steinke


This short text describes what a game author has to do to get input from two mice at the same time...

Mouse Hardware Interface - by Tomi Engdahl


This file describes the voltage levels and interface protocols used by serial mice and the MS systems mouse.

Joystick:


Programming the PC Joystick


Describes the method used to interface to standard analog joysticks. Does anyone have programming information for the new digital joysticks?

Programming the Gravis GamePad and Analog Pro


This short article discusses how to access the extended buttons on the Gravis Gamepad and the Analog Pro. Support the gamepad! It's cool and cheap!

Joystick Physical Interface - by Saastamoinen Vesa


Description and pinout of the joystick hardware interface. Includes extensions for CH VirtualPilot Pro and F-16 stick buttons.

Atari Joystick Interface for IBM PCs


This file contains a short description of and schematics for an atari joystick interface. This shows exactly how the joystick hardware interface works.

SpaceOrb Programming Secrets - by Brett Viren


Everything you need to know about the SpaceOrb 3D positioning device. This site details the packet structure used by the orb as well as sample code to access it.

Mounting an FCS handle on CH Flightstick base


"Here's a quick file to explain the procedure for taking a Thrustmaster Flight Control Stick and mounting it on a CH Flightstick base, while keeping all FCS button and hat functions (and only losing the throttle wheel on the CH base.)"

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