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- Subject: Re: Using Atari Joysticks on PC
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.170600.1@ualr.edu>
- From: djlewis@ualr.edu
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:06:00 GMT
- References: <blumenow.4@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za> <1993Jan24.203344.4337@vax.cns.muskingum.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan24.203344.4337@vax.cns.muskingum.edu>, ke_kimmell@vax.cns.muskingum.edu (DER KOENIG VON KIMMELL) writes:
- > 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
- I ran across an old computer shopper article regarding converting the ATARI
- joystick to IBM ready. But for the cost of a new IBM joystick I don't feel it
- would be worth it.
- I will gather the info and post it if there is interest.
- Don Lewis
- <djlewis@ualr.edu>
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