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>Is it possible to write a drive that reads the >trackpoint interface and pretends to be a >an analog joystick? That's a cool idea, but I don't think it's been done. Even if somebody had written such a driver, it's not likely to work with most games. Joysticks are generally supported by game software which directly reads fixed hardware ports for the stick values. The only way to spoof this would be to write a virtual-mode driver which trapped the I/O accesses and returned values read from the trackpoint. The problem is that most interesting games these days are written using protected-mode DOS-extenders which preclude the use of such a virtual-mode technique. >Barring that, is there any way to use analog >joystics with a laptop? (Something like a >game card with a paralell connection and >appropriate software?) I think your only hope is to find a PCMCIA card with game ports, but I've never seen such a beast. You might throw the question out to the larger comp.sys.laptops crowd and see what you get. -- Doug