I just picked up an old 486 Compaq and 286 Toshiba laptop for old school gaming, but like always, I am extremely limited by the lack of a gameport. For win95/98/ME/XP gaming I see no problems with using my old PIII laptops and my newer Lenovo Core Duo's, but for DOS, it just plain sucks not having a gameport and MIDI port for that matter. I have seen topics here on Vogons regarding PCMCIA adapter solutions and am well aware of them, but they are so rare and so expensive that I have pretty much given up on DOS gaming on laptops (for now) until I miraculously find a MIDI/gameport adapter.
I really don't understand why no one ever included a gameport on older laptops...I think I have only ever seen one laptop with a gameport in an an old computer shopper magazine (I think the brand was Compydyne or something like that)...even most docking stations available for older laptops never included a gameport. Anyone here have a laptop with a gameport?