I hate Dell. :sigh:

Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have a freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a new wheel now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Corey will . . . ----------------------------------------- Dan Belcher Webmaster, http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash

If you're running Windows XP on the new toy, you're better off with a USB wheel anyway. XP doesn't fully support the game port controllers, since they're between four and seven years old and the controller manufacturers have moved their product primarily to USB. 8-) -- Chris H. "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have a > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a new wheel > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Corey will . > . . > > ----------------------------------------- > Dan Belcher > Webmaster, > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash >

Why hate Dell? Shouldn't you have checked it had a gameport in the first place? Doesn't sound like Dell's fault. (Can you tell I'm a network manager happy Dell's as server and WS's :) James "Chris H." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:dUkH8.662$[email hidden]...

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> If you're running Windows XP on the new toy, you're better off with a USB > wheel anyway. XP doesn't fully support the game port controllers, since > they're between four and seven years old and the controller manufacturers > have moved their product primarily to USB. 8-) > -- > Chris H. > > "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have

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> > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a new > wheel > > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Corey > will . > > . . > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Dan Belcher > > Webmaster, > > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash > > > >

On Fri, 24 May 2002 16:19:21 +1000, "news.unimelb.edu.au" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Why hate Dell? Shouldn't you have checked it had a gameport in the first >place? Reminds me of a silly workmate who recently bought an IBM with 3 years to pay. First thing he does is buy a half decent AGP video card to replace the one built into the motherboard. Brings it home to find the motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot :) Last I heard, it was up for sale. He'll lose a bundle, especially since it's a very average computer to start with, a low speed P3, and he'll still be making repayments for 3 years.

Dan, Chris is right. Gameports are soooo "legacy." IIWY, I'd go out and buy a wheel commensurate w. yer new CPU (like a Momo), but if you like, I'll give you a CH gameport if you'll pay the shipping. --Steve "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have a > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a newwheel > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Coreywill . > . . > > ----------------------------------------- > Dan Belcher > Webmaster, > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash

"Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:I%oH8.6065$[email hidden]... > Dan, > > Chris is right. Gameports are soooo "legacy." IIWY, I'd go out and buy a > wheel commensurate w. yer new CPU (like a Momo), but if you like, I'llgive > you a CH gameport if you'll pay the shipping. > > --Steve If gameports are so legacy then how is one supposed to connect a midi keyboard to the computer? Even mb's with onboard sound usually come with a gameport.

> If gameports are so legacy then how is one supposed to connect a midi > keyboard to the computer? Even mb's with onboard sound usually come with a > gameport. Good point, but I think you can get USB ones now...

You're right, Jonathan, and I've got an optometrist friend who dabbles in a lot of musical creations. He simply is staying with his trusty Windows 98 setup because most of the new computers on the market don't come with the proper (old) hardware setup. He's got too much invested in his equipment to change everything out, yet he doesn't really need anything else to continue his enjoyment and creating. If the user is satisfied with the current computer/operating system, and it does what he/she wants, there really isn't any need to spend money. Unfortunately, our society seems to think we've all just "got to have" the latest all the time. We really don't. -- Chris H. "Jonathan Harker" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:I%oH8.6065$[email hidden]... > > Dan, > > > > Chris is right. Gameports are soooo "legacy." IIWY, I'd go out and buy a > > wheel commensurate w. yer new CPU (like a Momo), but if you like, I'll > give > > you a CH gameport if you'll pay the shipping. > > > > --Steve > > If gameports are so legacy then how is one supposed to connect a midi > keyboard to the computer? Even mb's with onboard sound usually come with a > gameport. > > >

Old controllers never die. They just get put on the shelf where they collect dust because the low-life manufacturers and operating system developers use the gameport as a way to generate new revenue by taking away support for it. At least that's how I see it :) There is nothing technically difficult about supporting the damned game port. It's been done for 20 years now! -Larry "Chris H." <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:dUkH8.662$[email hidden]...

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> If you're running Windows XP on the new toy, you're better off with a USB > wheel anyway. XP doesn't fully support the game port controllers, since > they're between four and seven years old and the controller manufacturers > have moved their product primarily to USB. 8-) > -- > Chris H. > > "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have

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> > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a new > wheel > > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Corey > will . > > . . > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Dan Belcher > > Webmaster, > > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash > > > >

Check for a game port ? I haven't seen a computer in 15 years that didn't have a game port. That's like checking to be sure the keyboard had a backspace key. :) -Larry "news.unimelb.edu.au" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ackm19$64e$[email hidden]...

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> Why hate Dell? Shouldn't you have checked it had a gameport in the first > place? > > Doesn't sound like Dell's fault. > > (Can you tell I'm a network manager happy Dell's as server and WS's :) > > James > > > > "Chris H." <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:dUkH8.662$[email hidden]... > > If you're running Windows XP on the new toy, you're better off with a

USB > > wheel anyway. XP doesn't fully support the game port controllers, since > > they're between four and seven years old and the controllermanufacturers

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> > have moved their product primarily to USB. 8-) > > -- > > Chris H. > > > > "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > > > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't

have > a > > > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a new > > wheel > > > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friendCorey

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> > will . > > > . . > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > Dan Belcher > > > Webmaster, > > > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash > > > > > > > > >

Even LAPTOP's come with Gameports :) -Larry "Jonathan Harker" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:I%oH8.6065$[email hidden]... > > Dan, > > > > Chris is right. Gameports are soooo "legacy." IIWY, I'd go out and buya

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> > wheel commensurate w. yer new CPU (like a Momo), but if you like, I'll > give > > you a CH gameport if you'll pay the shipping. > > > > --Steve > > If gameports are so legacy then how is one supposed to connect a midi > keyboard to the computer? Even mb's with onboard sound usually come with a > gameport. > >

Pretty much every souncard comes with a game port because it's the same as a midi port. Got an add on one with my Audigy Platinuim but I don't use it, USB is soo much better. Some Call Me Tim

Would a gameport to usb adapter work? They're available at radio shack and as a bonus they eliminate spiking. Don "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have a > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a newwheel > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Coreywill . > . . > > ----------------------------------------- > Dan Belcher > Webmaster, > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash

"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:lTtH8.69514$[email hidden]... > Check for a game port ? > > I haven't seen a computer in 15 years that didn't have a game port. > Well, most people got the gameport by way of a sound card. The latest iteration of Sound Blaster cards has dropped the gameport for a Firewire port. So.... it's not too hard to find a PC without a gameport nowadays. Dale.

Only fools and horses buy from Dell boy <G> Oops. Only the Brits here will get that one...... Couldn't resist MS "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have a > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a newwheel > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Coreywill . > . . > > ----------------------------------------- > Dan Belcher > Webmaster, > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash

The new soundblaster DOES have a gameport, thought it is not physically on the card. It is on its own slot ala old IDE cards with the I/O. -Stuart Becktell "Dale Green" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:lTtH8.69514$[email hidden]... > > Check for a game port ? > > > > I haven't seen a computer in 15 years that didn't have a game port. > > > > Well, most people got the gameport by way of a sound card. The latest > iteration of Sound Blaster cards has dropped the gameport for a Firewire > port. So.... it's not too hard to find a PC without a gameport nowadays. > > Dale. > >

Not the good ones :) The Inspirion (8100) that I have doesn't have one, not that bad, just had to replace my MS gamepad with the USB version. -Stuart BEcktell "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:XTtH8.69519$[email hidden]...

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> Even LAPTOP's come with Gameports :) > > -Larry > > "Jonathan Harker" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:I%oH8.6065$[email hidden]... > > > Dan, > > > > > > Chris is right. Gameports are soooo "legacy." IIWY, I'd go out and

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> a > > > wheel commensurate w. yer new CPU (like a Momo), but if you like, I'll > > give > > > you a CH gameport if you'll pay the shipping. > > > > > > --Steve > > > > If gameports are so legacy then how is one supposed to connect a midi > > keyboard to the computer? Even mb's with onboard sound usually come with

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You tried to order a C600 for an NT network lately? BWAHAHAHAHA Russ "news.unimelb.edu.au" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ackm19$64e$[email hidden]...

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> Why hate Dell? Shouldn't you have checked it had a gameport in the first > place? > > Doesn't sound like Dell's fault. > > (Can you tell I'm a network manager happy Dell's as server and WS's :) > > James > > > > "Chris H." <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:dUkH8.662$[email hidden]... > > If you're running Windows XP on the new toy, you're better off with a

USB > > wheel anyway. XP doesn't fully support the game port controllers, since > > they're between four and seven years old and the controllermanufacturers

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> > have moved their product primarily to USB. 8-) > > -- > > Chris H. > > > > "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > > > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't

have > a > > > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a new > > wheel > > > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friendCorey

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> > will . > > > . . > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > Dan Belcher > > > Webmaster, > > > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash > > > > > > > > >

"Don Schwartz Jr" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:T7vH8.15557$[email hidden]... > Would a gameport to usb adapter work? They're available at radio shack and > as a bonus they eliminate spiking. I think if you go that route you will only get four functional buttons.

um, why not just buy a gameport "Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well, I just bought a new $1,899.52 Dell PC to find out it doesn't have a > freakin' gameport for my Logitech wheel! I gotta go out and buy a newwheel > now AND find someone to buy my old wheel off me. Maybe my friend Coreywill . > . . > > ----------------------------------------- > Dan Belcher > Webmaster, > http://www.gplworld.racesim.net/simcrash