Re: [slug-chat] Joysticks on Win motherboards

[Terry Collins <terryc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Kempe wrote:

> > They don't. Get a new soundcard.
> 
> Or get the game port adapter for the motherboard

Thanks for this.
Is this a standard or special adapter?

When I first saw the box, it struck me as funny that the sound and games
stuff were running off a card whose main outlet was the parallel port.
It wasn't until we looked at the reason why the boot up was only showing
1M and it turned out that it robbed video memory off the main ram, that
I twigged that this must have been a Win everything in software system.
First one I've ever seen.


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