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

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From: karx11erx
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:46

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slk-1 wrote:
> 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

You can play D2X-XL (www.descent2.de) using the D2 demo data. D2X-XL is
a modernized OpenGL version of Descent 2 and runs on WinXP. It supports
USB input device.

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