[games_access] Vista problems with JoyToKey - can anyone help?

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Amit...dyslexia rules! I have that too. :) We're such non-linear, creative thinkers, don't you think? ;)

Michelle

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>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:25:13 -0500

>From: "Amit Pitaru [LIST]" <list at pitaru.com>  

>Subject: Re: [games_access] Vista problems with JoyToKey - can anyone help?  

>To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>

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>   Hey Barrie,

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>   Thank, I'll definitely try out the 5 steps you

>   mention below. If needed, I'll email Ryo in Japanese

>   (my wife is from Tokyo) and try to sort it out. But

>   first I should test it on Vista in person as I

>   wasn't there when the student installed it with the

>   OT.

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>   All the best,

>

>   Amit

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>   PS - sorry for misspelling you name (again!) -

>   Dyslexia is at fault.

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>   From: games_access-bounces at igda.org

>   [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of

>   Barrie Ellis

>   Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:22 AM

>   To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List

>   Subject: Re: [games_access] Vista problems with

>   JoyToKey - can anyone help?

>

>    

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>   Hi Amit,

>

>   Visat compatibility problems - predictable wasn't

>   it? All I have so far as way of a possible solution

>   (not tested it yet) is this:

>

>   1. Right Click on JoyToKey.exe

>   2. Click properities

>   3. Go to Compatibility Tab

>   4. Check "Run this program in compatibility

>   mode"(Make sure it's XP SP2)

>   5. Check "Run this program as an administrator"

>

>   The author of JoyToKey is Ryo Ohkubo and you can

>   find his e-mail within the README file of JoyToKey.

>   He speaks a little English. It would be great to get

>   a fix sorted out. Good luck!

>

>    

>

>   Oh - and by the way - It's Barrie - not Berrie!

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>   All the best,

>

>    

>

>   Barrie

>

>   www.OneSwitch.org.uk

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>   ----- Original Message -----

>   From: Amit Pitaru [LIST]

>   To: 'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'

>   Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:28 AM

>   Subject: Re: [games_access] Vista problems with

>   JoyToKey - can anyone help?

>

>   Hey Berrie,

>    

>   One of my students is having similar problems with

>   Vista at home. I wasn't there myself but the OT told

>   me it doesn't run on the child's machine. I'm not

>   sure if it's a compatibility with the gamepad or the

>   software. Who's the author of this great software?

>   Perhaps I can get in touch with them and help

>   recompile the source-code.

>    

>   Cheers,

>   Amit

>    

>    

>

>   From: games_access-bounces at igda.org

>   [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of

>   Barrie Ellis

>   Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 3:39 AM

>   To: IGDA GA mailing list

>   Subject: [games_access] Vista problems with JoyToKey

>   - can anyone help?

>    

>   I have a person trying to get JoyToKey work with a

>   standard PC USB joypad. They've just upgraded to

>   Vista. I'm not sure if there is a compatibility

>   problem here.

>    

>   Does anyone out there have Vista running on their PC

>   and a USB Joypad?

>    

>   If so, do you have time to test out JoyToKey,

>   please:

>    

>   http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/2/I/JoyToKey/JoyToKey.htm

>    

>   All I want to know is - can you get your joystick to

>   act as the keyboard or mouse?

>    

>   Here's a one-switch on-line game that just uses

>   SPACE that would be a good test:

>    

>   http://www.idiombox.com/oneswitch/Spaced_Out.dcr

>    

>   Thanks!

>    

>   Barrie

>   www.OneSwitch.org.uk

>    

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