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- From: ke_kimmell@vax.cns.muskingum.edu (DER KOENIG VON KIMMELL)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using Atari Joysticks on PC
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.203344.4337@vax.cns.muskingum.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:33:44 -0500
- References: <blumenow.4@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Organization: Muskingum College
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- In article <blumenow.4@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za>, blumenow@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za (Warren Blumenow) writes:
- > I have heard that it is possible (with the correct driver software) to use an
- > Atari-type (microswitch) joystick on the IBM PC. I don't know where or how
- > it would be connected. If anyone has heard of, or better still, has used
- > something of this nature, or if you have the drivers, etc., please E-mail:
- > blumenow@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za
- >
- I remember seeing a game in a Software store in Akron Ohio that had a
- device that plugged into your printer (parallel) port and allowed an old Atari
- Joystick to be controlled via the device.
-
- Kevin
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