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Contents

Customer Care

Free_technical_support

Overview

What is Joki?

Note to game authors

Configuring

Setting up Joki

Running Joki

Value for your money

4-Button support available

Hot new PC arcade game controller!

HURRICADE

Credits

Special thanks to...


Setting up Joki

Joki is UpJoy Driven(tm). Joki gets its joystick input from the UpJoy joystick driver. UpJoy must be installed on your system for Joki to work. UpJoy is also shareware and can be downloaded from CompuServe's GAMEDEV forum (UPJOY.ZIP). UpJoy is also available from BIGGUN.

You can copy Joki to the directory of your choice. Make sure to copy joki.exe and joki.hlp (this online help) to the same directory.

You can add Joki's icon to Program Manager by selecting File | New from Program Manager's menus.


What is Joki
What is Joki?

Joki makes your joystick work like a keyboard so that you can play 'keyboard only'  Windows games with your joystick! Joki makes moving your joystick like pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard. The joystick buttons can be programmed to emulate any key.

Some Windows games already have joystick support -- not necessarily good, though. Joki can improve joystick performance for such games. Just select 'keyboard control'   for the game and let Joki do the work.

Joki is shareware, so enjoy it and please distribute it.


Free technical support

We welcome your questions and suggestions.

Please contact BIGGUN on CompuServe(R): 100100,574

Or send a letter to:

BIGGUN International

Po Box 3291

Parklands

2121 New South Africa

You can talk to us at any time, just phone: +27 (11) 391-5445, all hours.

If you have any questions whatsoever about joysticks, we'd like to hear from you.

Happy Gaming!


Special thanks to...

Joki was developed on a BIG BLUE Aptiva.

Thanks, IBM, for a real cool personal computer for games, etc.


Running Joki

You can start Joki by clicking on its icon or by selecting Run from Program Manager's File menu and then running joki.exe.

Joki starts running as a minimized application (iconized). You won't see a new window, because Joki immediately starts running in the background. With Joki running, moving your joystick forward, right, backward and left is like pressing the arrow keys.

Joystick button 1 defaults to Space and button 2 defaults to the Ctrl key. In other words, pressing button 1 is like pressing the space bar and button 2 works like the control key.

To stop Joki; switch to Joki with Alt-Tab then click on Close.

See also:

Re-defining the buttons

4-Button support available


HURRICADE

A hot new PC arcade game controller is blowing away conventional joysticks and gamepads!

Its wild! It's the HURRICADE(tm) PC arcade game controller from BIGGUN. The HURRICADE's superior firepower lets gamers survive in today's fast-paced PC action games, transforming a personal computer into a no-coins-required arcade machine.

Precision machined from solid African Imbuia wood with a genuine arcade machine joystick and four big arcade machine buttons mounted on it, the massive HURRICADE weighs in at 5.3 pounds (2,4 kg)! You can comfortably place one on your lap.

Plug a HURRICADE's 6.5 foot (2 meter) cable into your IBM PC or compatible's standard joystick port and see the city lights dim. Analog (potentiometer) joysticks are slow and trashable -- definitely not suited for the action of games like ONE MUST FALL , id DOOM, MORTAL KOMBAT, Rebel Assault and RAPTOR. No serious gamer will play DOOM with an analog joystick.

In contrast, the HURRICADE is the ultimate controller for the most popular games in the world. Its super responsive digital steel-shaft arcade joystick makes it second nature to align precisely with targets. Four button functionality lets gamers run, sidestep! (strafe), activate lifts, open doors and fire with FORCE in DOOM.Their ergonomic layout makes it easy to press all four buttons simultaneously.

Play non-stop for hours with your palms resting on the wide base below the joystick and buttons. What's so nice is that when things get rough, the HURRICADE can take the punch. Real arcade action is what gamers want; to take out all their frustration on something. Hammer a keyboard and you'll break it. Bash the HURRICADE with your fist and it'll crush your hand!  Each HURRICADE comes with a 3-year warranty.

The HURRICADE is for IBM PCs and compatible computers and makes thousands of PC

arcade games like ONE MUST FALL, DOOM, MORTAL KOMBAT, RAPTOR, Jazz Jackrabbit, and Rebel Assault come alive. Its digital speed, solid feeling, exotic look and extreme robustness make the HURRICADE an investment.

The text file, hot.txt includes an order form which you can fill out and mail to BIGGUN. Use the Windows notepad program to read the file. Full color brochures of the HURRICADE are available on request.

You get the 4 button version of Joki and the latest version of UpJoy for Windows for free with your HURRICADE.


Re-defining the buttons

By default, joystick button 1 emulates the space bar and button 2 emulates the control key. This works fine for most games. You can, however make the button emulate any key of your choice.

To change a button definition: Make sure that Joki is running then press Ctrl-Esc. Switch to Joki so that Joki's icon becomes the foreground application. Hold down the key you wish to assign to a button, then press and release the button. For example, if you want button one to be Enter; press and hold down the Enter key then press and release button 1. Joki saves the key to the joki.ini file in your Windows directory. Next time Joki starts, the Enter key will automatically be assigned to button 1.

While Joki is the foreground application, it won't emulate keys -- switching to your game with Alt-Tab will make Joki emulate keys again.

See also:

4-Button support available


4-Button support available

The shareware version of Joki has 2 button joystick support. If you have a joystick or a gamepad with four buttons you can order the 4 button version of Joki for only $15.

Joki is a must for Windows games. Just complete the order form in the joki.txt file using Windows notepad (notepad.exe).

We'll through in the latest version of UpJoy for Windows.


Note to game authors

You can distribute Joki with your games to add joystick support, note however, that you can program your game to access the UpJoy joystick driver directly. UpJoy supports 2 joysticks connected to 1 computer and up to 8 buttons.

See UpJoy's online help for more information.