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- From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.162757.9906@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 16:27:57 GMT
- References: <C0EBF5.EHL@andy.bgsu.edu> <1993Jan5.200254.2033@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> <GERRY.93Jan6101905@onion.cmu.edu>
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- In article <GERRY.93Jan6101905@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
- >I've been waiting for some one to post the correct answer, but alas,
- >no one has yet, so I will. Older G2000 systems had a card that served
- >as disk controller, serial I/O, PIO and game port.
-
- True.
-
- >The new VLB system
- >has the disk controller. SIO and PIO built into the motherboard.
-
- But you can still buy non-VLB Gateways, right? Some of us (after
- having been screwed by all propertiary components (my AT&T 6300 comes
- to mind) on motherboard) have pledged NOT to buy anything that has
- anything MORE than the motherboard on the notherboard.
-
- Is G2000 still selling the regular flavor ISA 486/33? I think they
- do, and if so, does it use the old style multi-io card WITH a game
- port?
-
- >SInce the only other card in the system is the ATI, which certainly
- >doesn't have a game port, the system doesn't have a game port.
-
- Even in systems with the built-in G2000 gameport, experiences of
- many coworkers and friends who bought them seemed to vary. Some
- reported problems with some brands of joysticks (in high speed
- machines like 486/33`s, or even 386/25's, and ended up getting a
- card no matter what. I was lucky that the first joystick I plugged
- in worked :-). It's a Gravis. It seemed that cheaper joysticks
- would not work.
-
- > [Note: I do not have one, but I do know how to read and think.]
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- Ooookay...
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- Spiros
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