Hallo,
Voor FMS heb je de volgende mogelijkheden afhankelijk van je operating system. Sorry voor de vreemde taal.
A) For Win 95-98-Millennium with FMS, 2 easy possibilities (above all possibilities that are also possible for Win 2000 and XP, see section "B").
1) THROUGH THE PARALLEL-port (LPT1)
eventually with a resistor and zenerdiode, see the manual of FMS (
http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index.html) or some examples on my website which I personally tested (
http://users.belgacom.net/TX2TX) figure 7f-fms and others in chapter 7. Or here :
http://www.pibros.de/ (German).
2) THROUGH THE SERIAL-port
See the manual of FMS (
http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index.html)
If you think you’re not able to make such a cable, buy eventually one :
http://www.mattclement.freeservers.com/fms/fms1.html
http://www.virtualrcflight.com/
http://www.k-webdesign.com/modellflug/rc-interface.htm (German)
B) For Win 2000 and Win XP with FMS, a SIMPLE connection through the parallel-port or serial port is not working, those 2 versions of Windows are handling other protocols on these ports than Win 95-98-Millenium.
Your options then :
1) THROUGH THE SOUNDCARD
With smartpropo :
http://www.sekiriki.jp/smartpropo/manual.html
The advantage is that it's simple to make : 1 audio-cable and a resistor or potmeter
2) THROUGH THE SERIAL PORT (Com-port)
a) via an interface with a programmable IC (PIC), which is described in the directory of FMS, see …FMS\Doc\Interface\readme_en.htm on your harddisk.
Or
http://myweb.absa.co.za/eric.brouwer/interface.htm
b) or the same electronic interface that you can buy ready to use here :
http://www.welwyn.demon.co.uk/
http://www.customelectronics.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.clonepac.freeserve.co.uk/prod03.htm
http://www.hnpl.net/wt/
http://www.rc-sim.de/workshop/rc_game/rc_game.html (German)
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/patrick.bicheron/acceuil.htm (French)
3) THROUGH THE USB-port
http://n.ethz.ch/student/maederb/ (selfmade)
http://www.rc-electronics.co.uk
http://www.welwyn.demon.co.uk/fms_lead/fms_lead.htm
http://www.customelectronics.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.milehighwings.com/usb_cables.htm
http://www.geocities.com/simblaster/
http://www.hnpl.net/wt/
http://www.ripmax.com/FS_Simulators_Accessories.html
http://www.modelisme.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4346 (French)
http://www.ifrance.com/aerofly/GO.htm (French)
http://rcsim.flugmodellbau.de/downloads/PDF-Dateien/interface_USB.pdf (German : kit)
http://www.modellpilot.de/ (German)
http://www.k-webdesign.com/modellflug/rc-interface.htm (German)
If you have a 4-axis joystick, you can use an interface-cable gameport-->USB, for sale in every computershop, thus ideal for modern laptops without a COM-port
4) THROUGH THE GAME-port
a) with an interface which transforms the signal of the transmitter in a joystick-signal
http://myweb.absa.co.za/eric.brouwer/interface.htm (selfmade)
http://www.milehighwings.com/joystick_cables.htm
http://www.geocities.com/simblaster/
http://www.ripmax.com/FS_Simulators_Accessories.html
http://www.chez.com/lesilicium/ (French)
http://www.rc-sim.de/workshop/rc_game/rc_game.html (German)
http://www.k-webdesign.com/modellflug/rc-interface.htm (German)
b) buy a 4-axis-controller joystick
http://www.rchobby.co.uk/gamebird_flight_simulator.html
http://www.gamebird.de/de/index.html (German)
c) or make yourself a 4-axis joystick with an old RC-transmitter, removing all electronics, replacing the 4 potmeters by potmeters of 200K (not 100K like mostly mentioned), and wiring like in :
http://soldcentralfl.com/flyingpenguin/rcstick.htm
http://graccus.free.fr/joystick.html (French)
http://iquebec.ifrance.com/st-prime/modif_rc.html (French)
5) Or make a partition on your harddisk where you will install Windows 95-98-Millennium. Then you can connect your radio simply via the parallel-port or Serial-port as described in the manual of FMS and start the older Windows (see section "A").
Hope this helps,
Olivier