Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!mseales From: Michael.Seales@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Brian Seales) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: What can you do with a PC game port? Keywords: pc-game port resistance photocell temperature probe Message-ID: <1991Apr08.050339.29187@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 8 Apr 91 05:03:39 GMT References: <40093@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Computer Science, Victoria University, Wellington, NewZealand Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz Originator: mseales@downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz In article , larry@fungus.UUCP (Larry Ng) writes: |> mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) writes: |> |> > There are two analog inputs (resistance), correct? Suppose I connect |> > a photocell across one and the temperature probe from a microwave oven |> > across the other; would I then be able to read the room temperature and |> > light intensity (assuming I've worked out the scaling of values)? |> > |> > Could someone mail me a list of the pin descriptions for the game port? |> > Is it possible to OUTPUT anything through the game port? |> |> Hey, I was thinking of that too! (Great minds think alike? ;-) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Shouldn't that be "Small minds seldom differ" ??!!?? Michael Seales