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I have been looking into the game port "add-on" issue. Seems like the
best bet is a PCMCIA gameport known as known as "QuickShot" and sold by
DataVision, 1-800-771-7466 for $69, among others I'm sure. I have not
purchased one yet so I can't comment on performance.
A company called Colorado Spectrum used to make a serial port Game
Port, but they went out of business. I found one of these and found it
pretty much useless as it seems to need a special driver for each game.
Even the games they had drivers for didn't seem to work though the hardware
diagnostics said everything was fine.
I have heard that there are others such as parallel port gameports
available in the far east or Australia but I have been unable to identify a
source.
Hope this helps.
-Vic
At 07:17 AM 7/27/96 -0400, you wrote:
>All:
>
>We have the need to install a Game port on 2 of our 760E's but it seems
>as though IBM when they made this machine said they were not putting a
>game port on it(one of the differences between the 760E and the ED) but
>in reality all they did was not put the hardware connector on the back
>since the system thinks there is a game port on the machine at I/O
>address 200-201.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get a game port to work on the
>760E?
>
>Does anyone know of a box, maybe, that will connect to a serial port,
>and give you game port functionality??
>
>Its too bad really the 760E is a real nice machine but I have had it
>for a week now and it seems that in true IBM form they have really
>missed the boat on some basic functionality i.e. suspend hibernate does
>not work properly
>
>Gary Henry
>Henryg@mail.dec.com
>
>