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hunky_artist:
i've got a Terratec sound card (home studio stuff) which has a separate gameport (midi) slot installed in the back of the computer

funnily enough I was looking at that adaptor just earlier on thinking about it. It's either that or I by a USB joypad at half the cost but have to re-solder the arcade stick... decisions decisions

Chris:
USB is far more reliable than gameports.  The gyrations a PC needs to go through to read a gameport are insane and very timing sensitive.  Probably one of the most poorly designed parts of the PC architecture.  Of course, back when the gameport card first made it's appearance in what, 1981, all PC's were one speed, made by one manufacturer, and had practiaclly no need for a joystick except for Flight Simulator.  It's amazing that the same specification is still in use today.

--Chris

hunky_artist:
i agree about all that, but if I'm only using it for mame... (dont play new games on my PC) ....and if windows xp actually has the information for joypads in there... i would have imagined that you should be able to use it

if it worked in 98, it should work in xp which is supposedly 'better'

it doesnt matter for my mame cab, that will be 98 anyway, but i just want to play my games without having to rip apart the arcade stick once more and re solder everything!!

oh well, lol

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