Hi,
I have the following card (see picture below), I browsed the web for drivers but could not find anything. I haven't yet connected in to my vintage setup but assumable it will need some kind of DOS drivers?
Does anyone have any info of this card?
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I could be wrong, but I believe this gameport card works the same as a gameport on a soundcard.
It simply splits up the gameport into two connectors, just like the original game adapter from IBM did in the 80s.
That way, two players can use a basic joystick.
It may don't have a speed compensation, though. Some later game cards had a little trim pot that was handy for faster machines.
Anyway, I think DOS games talk directly to the card (port 201h) just like they do with VGA..
That being said, there might have been a diskette with utilities included, originally.
Might be interesting to find out!
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No drivers, this is DOS, software talks directly to hardware. If your game supports dual (gameport) joysticks, it will work. Can confirm that a basically identical card worked fine for me with OMF2097 and two Gravis Gamepads.
Ok, thanks for the info. Just wondering do I benefit anything of this card if I have a gameport on my soundcard and another one in my I/O card?
Parni wrote on 2020-10-19, 07:16:Ok, thanks for the info. Just wondering do I benefit anything of this card if I have a gameport on my soundcard and another one in my I/O card?
If a game supports dual controllers on the same port I/O (and you want/need that), this can deliver it, where two separate ones can't.
If you're not using two controllers it's just another chance to get a resource conflict. Also some people report these things could be more speed-sensitive than single ports - although that's not my experience, mine worked fine up to K6-3+@600MHz (never tried beyond that, so maybe faster would be OK too).
Ok, great! Thanks again for the info.
