I finally broke down and bought a new laptop. It has Windows 7 operating system (which I really dislike!). I got FMS to run on it, thanks to all of the help posted on this forum. I could not get it to run with Smartproplus, so I can not use my JR receiver as a controller. I got it working with my Wingman force feedback joystic (without the feedback of course) but it is rather large to travel with.
I have a Logitech F310 Gamepad with two small joystics built in. When I tried it, I could only get three of the channels to show up in the FMS calibrate screen. In custom mode, I got both channels on the right stick and the throttle on the left stick to work. I had to map rudder and ailerons to the same channel to get ailerons and ground steering. It works OK but it is very sloppy when I try to do serious aerobatics. Has anyone else managed to get all four channels working with this gamepad?
IT'S OK - I FIGURED IT OUT!
Regards, KEW