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Re: Gravis gamepad with Pitfall???

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From: mrh... Mr Wrong
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 00:00
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Stargazer (tenn...@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca) wrote:
: com...@ptsg-austin.sps.mot.com (Ben Combee) wrote:

: >Oh, for my joystick port, I'm using the built in one off a Logitech
: >Soundman Wave.  I have heard of problems from people with multiple
: >game ports on their machines, even when one is disabled.

: That was my problem. Win 95 would say that the game card was connected properly
: but the joystick wasn't. And it wasn't just my gamepad but any joystick
: including my CH FlightStick. Once I removed the gamecard and re-enabled the port
: on my sound card, everything worked fine. (Win95 glitch, maybe?)

: Albert
: --
:  

I had this same problem.  I've been using the thrustmaster ACM game card 
and have the port in my AWE 32 disabled.  Worked fine pre-WIN95 and works 
fine in dos games in win 95 even though it told me the joystick was not 
correctly connected.  I got pitfall yesterday and no go on the joystick.  
I opened my ssystem checked if the sound card port was disabled and it 
was and still WIN95 told me not correctly connected.  Installed drivers 
for the ACM still no go.  Now the ACM has two joystcik ports, but they 
say for one joystick use the left one, and I had been doing that all 
along with my dos games no problem.  Well just for the hell of it I 
plugged the joystick into the right port and voila everything works 
fine.  Weird.

--Mr Wrong
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Subject: Re: Gravis gamepad with Pitfall???
Date: 1995/09/11
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