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From: ferguson@maitai.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Dennis Ferguson)
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Subject: Re: What can you do with a PC game port?
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Date: 30 Mar 91 17:23:00 GMT
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In article mumble mumble mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) writes:
>
>    I've got one of those "multi-IO" cards in my 386 box, and one of the
>connectors is a game port.  Is it possible to do anything with this game
>port other than use joysticks, etc?
>

There was an article in Byte several years back on how to turn your PC game
port into a 500kHz oscilloscope.  A small external board was required (a 
couple of op amps I recall).

Dennis