Re: [AD] [DOS] Sidewinder driver replacement

[Omar Cornut <cornut@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

As you suggested in the later e-mail, Tomohiko Sugiura's driver
works better under different systems (Dos/Win).
What I did in my own program was to disable using the 'agressive'
Sidewinder driver when autodetecting joystick, but forcing to it
when user deliberately choosed Sidewinder as his device of choice.

I don't have a Sidewinder here to test, so I don't know how safe
it is reducing the amount of detection trys from 16 to 1. I believe
we'll get feedback if ever this lead to a problem.

SIDEWIND.S is now unused in the distribution, by the way.

Thanks for your patch,
Omar



At 12:15 15/11/01, you wrote:
> First a bit of history: ;-)
> The Sidewinder joystick driver in Allegro 3.12 had been written by Marius
> Fodor. Between 3.12 and 3.9.33, Shawn rewrote it ("major changes after
> powerjaw sent me a pad to test it with") but this new version didn't work in
> a DOS box under Windows. So Tomohiko Sugiura contribued a completely new
> driver for 3.9.34 (dubbed Sidewinder Aggressive) that works both in pure DOS
> and under Windows.
>
> Now the problem: this latest driver brings about huge delays (2.5 seconds !)
> in the joystick autodetection process when no Sidewinder is plugged.
> Moreover, the code is a little messy and bloated, compared with the clean
> driver by Shawn.
>
> Therefore I'm going to get rid of the latest driver and revert to Shawn's
> driver, with an additional tweak (patch against 3.9.33 attached) in order to
> make it work in a DOS box under Windows too.
>
> [I own a Sidewinder pad, so the patch has been fully tested].
>
> --
> Eric Botcazou
> ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx