Seems like progress is being made, the game plays and you can "sort of" control it. I ended up installing XP on the computer, since the sound card has XP driver support. That got me access to the game port, however it's not very precise. But it's enough. The big issue now is that the PC version was NOT meant to be used with an analog wheel. Steering is very touchy, as you get nothing until a certain point, then full turn (like it's reading the input, and at a certain point makes a digital "left arrow" mapping). You simply cannot navigate menus without a keyboard. Reverse doesn't work, it inconsistently reads the buttons, etc etc. So I may check the racermame, but I need to see if there's a rom for this game.