Converting GamePort Joystick to USB Part 3: Understanding how USB gamepad works

Опубликовано: 29 Март 2026
на канале: Panda Engineering

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In the video I'm converting Saitek X8-30 from GamePort to USB. This project took a bit more than I expected, so I split it into 5 part, if you want to have a general gist of the videos, check out begging of part 5 and ending of part 4 for a demo.

Note that each joystick made in the day had different buttons and some may have different hat configuration or axes! Each came with it's own driver (on a diskette ;) )

Game in the last video is of course Airfix Dogfighter

Links to parts:
Part 1    • Converting GamePort Joystick to USB Part 1...
Part 2    • Converting GamePort Joystick to USB Part 2...
Part 3    • Converting GamePort Joystick to USB Part 3...
Part 4    • Converting GamePort Joystick to USB Part 4...
Part 5    • Converting GamePort Joystick to USB Part 5...