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From: doerschu@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Dave Doerschuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 2 Game Ports, how's it done?
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Date: 22 May 91 01:46:17 GMT
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A friend of mine is setting up a joystick on his PC for his kids.  He
asked me to make the purchase and install it, and I have become confused
over the availability of 2 joysticks on a single PC.  Some folks do this
with a Y adapter cable; this clearly does not differentiate between
the two joysticks.  Some multi-IO boards come thru with 2 game ports, and
I was wondering if they had two separate ports, or one port with two
connectors on it.  Does any game actually require two joysticks, or can
a single joystick be exchanged between the players?

Lastly, is there more than one "standard" address to set a game port to?
I believe that no interupt line is ever used by the game port, if this is
wrong, would someone please correct me?

Thank you for your time.

Dave Doerschuk
doerschu@rex.cs.tulane.edu