Multiple JoySticks

hi,
everybody,

Imagine there are a Three dots on your screen, now what I have to do is give the controls of this dots to JOYSTICK's. I've to give the up & down Left-Right movement to the dots with the JOYSTICKs.

First of all Can anybody tell me How to connect multiple joysticks to the
regular PC.

I have to operate Forklift with this joysticks.

Well, i've never worked on such a project before & i'm also not that familiar with API functions.

If someone can help me out with this, please reply.

thanx in advance,



Sunil Dani