Descent-II demo on XP laptop w/o gameport?

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From: slk-1
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:28

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Hi All,

  I've got an old copy of the Descent-2 demo formerly used on a Win98 
desktop. What would be required to play it on a WinXP laptop w/o a gameport? 
My first thought is that some DOS drivers would be needed for the USB 
Logitech gamepad, or is XP supposed to be able to handle this on it's own? 
Thanks,

        Steve

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