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[Zed Gecko]

What is PPJoy?
PPJoy is a joystick device driver for Windows 2000 and later. There is also limited support for Windows 98 and Windows Me. PPJoy was designed for joysticks connected to the parallel port but it also supports other devices via the virtual joystick interface

Supported devices are:
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* Joystick emulation using the keyboard or mouse

Windows will treat these devices just like any other joystick and they can be used in any game or application that accepts joystick input.
Why PPJoy?
There are lots of USB joysticks out there that are a lot less hassle to install and configure. So here is why you may want to use PPJoy:

* PPJoy is free for non-commercial use and you may already have a perfectly good controller supported by PPJoy.
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* You want to emulate joystick input from another application.

PPJoy seems to be a good way to simulate Joystick-Input. It offers:
Keyboard & Mouse to Joystick translation and
a DLL to directly control the virtual Joystick.

The authors Website seems to be down, but PPJoy can still be found on variouse download-sites, e.g. http://www.simtel.ne...PJoy/75176.html
I stored it on my autohotkey.net-account to keep it availiable:
https://ahknet.autoh.../PPJoySetup.zip

[ninjabob7]

I have written this library to help AHK control a PPJoy virtual joystick. If someone finds it useful, I would love to hear what they did with it.

[ninjabob7]

Yep, that's the idea. When you install PPJoy and set up a virtual controller, your app will see that as a normal joystick. Then you use AHK to control the buttons and axes on that virtual joystick.

[ninjabob7]

is it possible to set PPJoy position with actual value but not with percents?

Apparently I didn't implement that in my DLL, although I did name the methods as if I was going to later. If you know any C at all it would be fairly easy to add them (I included source code in the zip), but I probably won't get around to it for a long time.