Janes CH Combat Stick-MAME?

[BamBam]

I was thinking of integrating my old Jane's CH Combat Stick into my new control panel.  It plugs into my sound card rather than USB.  I was hoping to use it for games such as Afterburner etc.
Any thoughts or concerns?
Thanks.

[u_rebelscum]

I didn't find details on that stick, so I'll have to give the general rules:

If the gameport stick had 4 buttons and 4 axes (or less of both), the "gameport joystick stardard", a cheep gameprot to USB adaprter probably will work.

Some sticks sacrificed two axes for two buttons, for a total of 2 axes and 6 buttons.  These probably will also work with a cheap adapter.

OTOH, if the stick used the "MIDI standard", and thus needing a special driver, it's easier to gut the stick, and connect the switches and POTs to a hacked gamepad or U-HID.  (First google find with some hacks and encoders links)

You used to be able to get a add-on card with gameports, but I'm not sure which of the old "MIDI standard" sticks are supported on the Vista/XP/7/linux OSes.

[BamBam]

Actually I have one of those dedicated Gameport Cards somewhere in my box of gizmos.  I might just give that a try.
Thanks.