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- From: phl@cs.rit.edu (Peter H Lutz)
- Subject: Using a JoyStick on a LapTop
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.013229.28252@cs.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:32:29 GMT
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- I have a cousin who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. He uses a laptop PC
- (just arrived for Xmas) in school to take notes and write reports.
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- So far ... so good. But, being a kid, he would like to play games.
- His disability, however, makes using the keyboard in a fast moving game
- difficult. A joystick would be better.
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- Alas, the laptop, as with most laptops, has no game port.
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- Is there a way to connect a joystick to such a laptop??? Perhaps
- something via the printer or serial port with appropriate software to
- intercept the calls from the game?
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- If you know of any such thing ... please mail me.
-
- Pete Lutz
- R.I.T.
- phl@cs.rit.edu
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