OK,
Well if you dig long enough you just might find what you are looking for! PPJoy seems to be a kind of solution ... PPJoy has an application for a virtual parallel port joystick driver and when you hook on the PPJoyCom serial port streamer then you actual get a method of sending serial bytes through the USB virtual serial port driver to create a working joystick! and it works! I connected some buttons and a pot to my external control board and created some buttons and a joystick, then calibrated through windows games controller.
The link I used for the download was
http://www.mediafire.com/?6xxj9egxjy4[
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and many thanks to all those who offered their suggestions ...
Regards
Scott