Posted by btribble on 10, 2001 at 3:57 AM:
Hi everyone. I'm interested in hooking up two old-style PC joysticks to the gameport for use in two player games. I found two old Interact "PC ProPad" controllers (x/y axis, two buttons) for cheap, and have a joystick Y-cable which splits the gameport so both joypads can be connected. DOS MAME also has an input for "two joysticks". I was expecting everything to work fine, but to my dismay the first controller works but the second one doesn't do anything.
I looked around the Internet and noticed a few pages said there were problems with the MIDI included in most modern sound cards, and offered a circuit to fix the problem. However, I have no circuit-making skills.
Any ideas about what I could do, or something I could buy to fix this? I realize this is really old technology but I'd really prefer to use the old PC gameport in conjunction with DOS MAME, since DOS doesn't have access to all the cool new USB controllers.