Oohh but I love my Gravis Gamepad pro USB :o) and I dont think it makes me the
least anti social....
I keep it right next to my keyboard and have mapped it with the following
keyboard sequences (You might need to insert a delay between some keypresses):
1 - <F2> /ASSIST <ENTER>
2 - <F3> /ASSIST <ENTER>
3 - <F4> /ASSIST <ENTER>
4 - <F5> /ASSIST <ENTER>
start - <F6> /ASSIST <ENTER>
select - <shift>+5 delay 1 delay 5 (forage+sense heading)
red button - /pet attack <ENTER>
xxx button - /pet back up <ENTER> (dont remember which colors they have)
yyy button - /pet guard here <ENTER>
zzz button - /pet follow me <ENTER>
Movement 1 - Not used yet
Movement 2 - Not used yet
Movement 3 - Not used yet
Movement 4 - Not used yet
Esp the mapping of assist is really really nice. I never have to worry about
setting up an assist key and can switch the person I assist in a jiffy.
Only thing that could be better would be if the pad was designed to be on the
table. The 1, 2, 3 and 4 buttons are not that well placed.
I have also fiddled a bit around with using it for twisting and while I got it
working with something along: 1 delay(X000mS) 2 delay(50mS) 2 delay(X000mS) 1
delay(50mS) repeat.... I quickly realised that it makes it damned hard to switch
to a new set of songs as I could risk a delay of several seconds until I had
fully control over start and stopping of songs. Further more twisting is so
grown into my fingers that it dont seem like much of a hazzle anymore.
So there you have it. With my gamepad - I have the perfect macro program for
EQ... As far as I remember it can even emulate mouse movement and clicks, but I
havent ventured into that yet (and proberly wont).
Musiker Silverdrum, bard of the 30th song - Bertox, ZONE: work
>Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:02:12 -0500
> From: "Joshua R. Moore" <josh@...>
>Subject: RE: Question about game pad
>
>A game pad is not the best choice for playing everquest, unless you plan on
>being antisocial.=) you need access to the keyboard at almost all times to
>play. It really isn't an action game.
>
>There are some programmable Joysticks out there by Gravis that are pretty
>good.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: CMai [mailto:CMai@...]
>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 9:53 AM
>To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
>Subject: [eqbards] Question about game pad
>
>
>From: CMai <CMai@...>
>
>I am trying to buy a game pad that I can use with EQ but I have not been
>very successful at it. So I was wondering if anyone out there that got a
>game pad working for them pls advice.
>
>Thank you,
>Syren Wynd - The Bard of Rathe
>