@ IPete2, I remember this guy Pepsi from along time back. Was his lib released for free? If so, can you e-mail me the dll's etc.. please?
man, I'm starting to feel old here 8X
Yes it's released as free. I dropped support for it as I couldn't figure out how to get multiple forcefeedback effects to play correctly on more than one game controller. Also, I've always wanted to write a more direct way of accessing the DirectInput functions through blitz, more of a wrapper dll around the DirectInput API so one can write the guts to control it all in blitz. Jest havent had the time as Im harldy ever home mostly.
I thought I had a newer version than 1.4, but here is v1.4 to download and it also includes the CPP source files for the dll. Hope it helps somehow...
http://www.exodev.com/files/BB_DInput1_4.zip