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| freckleface:
I thought game ports on computers went out years ago..... |
| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Texasmame on February 10, 2007, 08:29:03 pm --- --- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 10, 2007, 08:13:54 pm --- --- Quote from: Texasmame on February 10, 2007, 08:06:28 pm --- --- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 10, 2007, 08:00:04 pm --- --- Quote from: Texasmame on February 10, 2007, 07:48:35 pm ---Think they have the 5k at Radio Shack. Hope it's a pretty easy swap-out! Guess I gotta get a connector for the gameport now, too. :( --- End quote --- ROFL nearly right..... you want to buy 100k pots..... the ones on it now will be 5K :dizzy: Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) --- End quote --- :badmood: I thought that Sidewinder hack was all the rage because they HAD 5k pots in them?!? --- End quote --- The sidewinder uses a proprietary interface and has 5K pots connected to its own board, which in turn, outputs a 100K standard signal to the PC. So the sidewinder board effectively acts like an A-Pac. Where you can connect original arcade controls directly to it. So if you have a sidewinder to hack up, you could just connect your original control directly to it. Otherwise just buy some 100K pots and swap them out on the controller it's a 5 Min Job. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) --- End quote --- Ahhh, k. Yeah, just looked up 1up's hack. Now I'm gettin' it. My lone problem with just swapping pots and connecting to the gameport is this - I also have an arcade pedal with pots - I'll need to do the same/similar for that. So, if I'm using the SW yoke for driving games with that arcade pedal AT THE SAME TIME, at least one would have to use 1up's hack since there is only one gameport, right? ??? --- End quote --- No..... The standard gameport on a PC is wired to accept TWO Joysticks... So you effectively have 4 ports on the socket, to which you can attach POTs. Two for the joystick, and one for each pedal. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: freckleface on February 10, 2007, 08:31:45 pm ---I thought game ports on computers went out years ago..... --- End quote --- So did 99% of the games we play... who's counting!!! The fact is that most PC's still ship with a game port and on the ones that don't you'll usually be able to find one on your sound card. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 10, 2007, 08:36:53 pm ---The fact is that most PC's still ship with a game port --- End quote --- What? What year is this? Maybe in the UK they do, but the last machines I've ordered not only didn't have a gameport - they didn't have a PS2, parallel or serial ports. |
| Teebor:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 10, 2007, 08:51:37 pm --- --- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 10, 2007, 08:36:53 pm ---The fact is that most PC's still ship with a game port --- End quote --- What? What year is this? Maybe in the UK they do, but the last machines I've ordered not only didn't have a gameport - they didn't have a PS2, parallel or serial ports. --- End quote --- Really?? that almost sounds like a Dell pc or possibly a HP :( How do you guys recognise the yoke's so easily? or does it just appear easy to the untrained observer? i.e. ME :D |
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