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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?
- Message-ID: <C0FxAq.8H9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <C05wL0.J87@news.iastate.edu> <C0EBF5.EHL@andy.bgsu.edu> <1993Jan5.200254.2033@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:18:12 GMT
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- c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
-
- >In article <C0EBF5.EHL@andy.bgsu.edu> sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold) writes:
- >> If they're still shipping with the WD multi-port HD controller, the
- >>game port is built in. You just need to have them send you a joystick connector
- >>to plug into the card and you're set. You could also probably pick one up at
- >>a decent parts store for about a buck. If none of these workd, I'd just go
- >>out and get a Kraft joystick card for about $10 US.
-
- >It's a funny situation. A year back a friend and myself bought G2000's,
- >I got the desktop (stupid me, it's huge) and my friend bought the
- >tower. Both 486/33's.
-
- >Both had the WD multi-port HD controller; mine had a joystick port in the
- >back of the machine while my friend's only had it on the card but no
- >space to plug it onto the box. He called Gateway to have one sent but
- >I think they didn't sent it (or they did not have such a piece). Finally
- >he bought a game card.
-
- 1.5 years ago I called GW for that cable after I got my system that
- didn't have it, and they fedexed me a whole dual port game card.
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