How to write a driver for unsupported USB joystick?

[CFran]

I got an unsupported joystick, a Gravis Blackhawk ADB (Aplle Desktop
Bus), connected to my PC by an iMate (ADB to USB adapter). The problem
is that it's only recognized as a HID mouse

how can i write a driver in C (compiling with GCC under cygwin) to make
it usable as a joystick?

 

[CFran]

No i dont think you understood, the joystick is not supposed to be
recognized, i dont have any problem, it's just that this joystick is
supposed to be only recognized as a HID mouse. now what i want, is to
develop a driver, but i dont know how to. i thought this one group was
the most appropriate to ask this...

 

[Pavel A.]

No i dont think you understood, the joystick is not supposed to be
recognized, i dont have any problem, it's just that this joystick is
supposed to be only recognized as a HID mouse. now what i want, is to
develop a driver, but i dont know how to. i thought this one group was
the most appropriate to ask this...

No, this group is obsolete and defunct.
Try microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
may be also microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel
By the way, to write Windows drivers you need MS compiler and the DDK, forget GNU and Cygwin.

--PA

 

[CFran]

oh, thank you. by the way, what MS compiler do you think about? Visual
C or something like that?

 

[Doron Holan [MS]]

use hte compiler that comes with the DDK, that is the only approved way of
creating a driver. The ddk is free, s/h is the only cost.

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