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Gameport support for Vista and Windows 7 32bit |
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Written by DEY_Scull_AUS
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
While most of us are using usb joysticks these days, there are a few stubborn bastards (like me and Karl) who refuse to give up using their old gameport joysticks. In my case I use an old Sidewinder 1, and to my dismay microsoft no longer supports gameport controllers. Having recently upgraded to WIndows 7, I had to revisit the problem of getting it work somehow. There is suprisingly little information on this on the internet, in fact, many websites claiming it is simply not possible to run gameport controllers on vista or win7.
Well, it is possible, but it requires a bit of stuffing around to get it set up properly. So for future reference (ie.the next time I reformat/install OS) I have made available a download package with all the required files and instructions. It can be found in our downloads section .
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