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On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:31:08PM -0500, M. R. Brown wrote:
> * Sam Lantinga <sl...@de...> on Tue, Jul 31, 2001:
>
> > > Looking through Joystick API I fail to notice any support for force
> > > feedback. I take that current API doesn't have any support. Now that 1.3 is
> > > coming is there going to be API support in it?
> >
> > As far as I know force feedback is only available using the DirectInput API.
> > I'm hesitant to add something that only works on one platform.
> >
>
> IIRC, James Simmons and/or Vojtech Pavlik were working on an API for force
> feedback for ruby, codename for the linuxconsole project's 2.5 input tree
> (BTW some drivers do work in 2.4.x). You can find the ruby source at
> http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole-dev.
>
> I don't know if they ever completed their work - hence the crosspost :).
Yes, it works with I-Force devices now.
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