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First post, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-07, 21:54

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I just picked up a basically mint Gravis Black hawk digital today for two dollars, I mean no fading of the colors or anything it looks great.
Here are the picture of it and other things that people have doubted I have.

Label of the joystick

Top of the Sound Blaster pro 2 card.

The Joystick in all it's glory

More of the sound card

Better close up of the card

Here is the zork game.

So, now do you believe me?

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Reply 1 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-07, 22:36

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*Double post*

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Reply 2 of 25, by leileilol

Posted on 2011-07-07, 22:59

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Cool Story Bro

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Reply 3 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-07, 23:00

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You really doubt me? Fine I will post pics.

Edit: For those who doubt I posted pics above.

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Reply 4 of 25, by Tetrium

Posted on 2011-07-07, 23:37

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I think the thing is, we have a "I've recently bought this hardware" topic for cases like these 😉
And you picked all of these up for just $2?

Whats missing in your collections?
My retro rigs (old topic)
Interesting Vogons threads (links to Vogonswiki)
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Reply 5 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-07, 23:40

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No, the joystick was $2 the card was free (found it in a computer I had in storage) zork was $1

Reply 6 of 25, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2011-07-08, 04:17

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Reply 7 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-08, 05:02

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Yeah, after rainbows shot out of my ass and I had tea with nyan nyan cat... Okay, where do you suppose I get drivers for windows 98se that work with the game controller? I didn't get a cd with it.

Reply 8 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-08, 05:11

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Oh, in windows 98se device manager whe it says "system speaker" does that mean the little blep bloop pc speaker or is that the system onboard sound?

Reply 9 of 25, by elianda

Posted on 2011-07-08, 11:21

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dosquest wrote:
Yeah, after rainbows shot out of my ass and I had tea with nyan nyan cat... Okay, where do you suppose I get drivers for windows 98se that work with the game controller? I didn't get a cd with it.

Nyan cat suggests the Win98 CD.

Otherwise this is where the rainbow ends: ftp://ftp.mpoli.fi/pub/software/PROGRAMM/GENE … AL/JOYSDK11.ZIP

Reply 10 of 25, by F2bnp

Posted on 2011-07-08, 12:49

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
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This is hilarious 🤣 🤣 🤣

Reply 11 of 25, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2011-07-08, 12:49

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Reply 12 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-08, 18:55

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Now, are there any free games I can try to test it out with? I got rid of all my flight sims except for the newer ones that would not run on win98

Reply 13 of 25, by Shagittarius

Posted on 2011-07-08, 18:59

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A digital joystick would be a terrible choice for a flight sim, but I dont think that Gravis Blackhawk is digital so your ok.

As far as something to play why not pick up Freespace 2 from gog.com? Get it? A "free" game.

Reply 14 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-08, 19:03

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Hmm, bad command or file name when I run the gravis install program.

Reply 15 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-08, 19:11

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Nope, the game does not work on windows 98, stupid missing dll file error.

Reply 16 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-08, 19:16

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These are the wrong drivers.

Reply 17 of 25, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-07-08, 19:25

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Well, since Gravis went out of buisness their ftp server was killed, I am looking for http://download.cnet.com/Gravis-BlackHawk-Dig … 10_4-72111.html is no longer available, but I need that driver!

Reply 18 of 25, by Cloudschatze

Posted on 2011-07-08, 23:29

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ftp://ftp.kensington.com/gravis/Public/Pcstic … perience/betas/

Reply 19 of 25, by SavantStrike

Posted on 2011-07-09, 00:54

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Can someone explain what's so special about this particular joystick?

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