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General Mach Discussion / "Analog Joystick"?

« on: May 17, 2006, 02:13:04 PM »

Hi,
 I have Mach3 and want to jog my machine with a joystick. Page 21 of the mach3 manual says that "Mach 3 will work with any Windows compatible "analog joystick"". Why the quote marks around "analog"? Does the joystick have to be analog to work with mach3? These are harder to get these days (besides 'd-pad' types) and digital joysticks are cheap and plentiful. Also I have no game port on my machine, only usb. Will the stick still work if I get a game port type joystick and put a USB adapter on it? Thanks in advance.

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General Mach Discussion / Help, tried to optimise, now I can't use my mouse or keyboard!

« on: May 15, 2006, 02:27:58 AM »

I installed Mach3 on my machine (which can use only USB mice and keyboards) and tried to "optimise" it by following the instructions in the optimise file on the downloads page of the artsoft website. I got through step 10 "Enable DMA on all Disk Controllers" and the system asked me to reboot. I did and now I can't use my mouse or keyboard. I don't want to reinstall windows but the machine is useless without any user input. As I said before I am only able to use usb mice and keyboards with this system. Can somebody give me a suggestion? Thanks