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My latest museum piece.

(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa181/Yegolev/ch_flight.jpg)

I'd love to get this working on my PC but I have little hope.  I can probably get the converter to plug it in from somewhere, but drivers?

Here are your drivers, Sir (http://www.download.com/CH-Gameport-Device-Drivers/3000-2110_4-10199549.html)! This time for realz, y0.

Yeah, looks like getting the cable might be the hard part.  The funny thing is that I don't play flight simulators.  Might try it with Mechwarrior 2 if I can find the CD.

Isn't it just an old-school analog joystick?  Must be a sound card out there that still has a standard MIDI port.

--Dave

Yegolev, do you post at NeoGAF? I think someone posted there in the pickup thread acquiring the same thing. I think that someone had your David Bowie avatar also. Might be two people. Wouldn't take long to check though.  :grin:

If the name was Yegolev, it was me.  Otherwise it was just someone else with good taste.  I mean, that Bowie mug shot is hot.

EDIT for sound card... I haven't dug into my parts graveyard to see what I have, but I think the chances of having an old sound card are slim since sound cards are why I hated DOS gaming so much.  I'm hoping for a more elegant solution.

Here you go (http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-SBT-SP6C-6-Channel-Surround-Sound/dp/B0006I09OS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1217477654&sr=8-2), $8.99 on Amazon.  Most sound cards are going to have game/MIDI ports, if you've got integrated audio on the mobo you may even have a jack to connect one somewhere.  Lots of synthesizers and other old-style MIDI equipment still out there.  It actually started out as a MIDI interface, joysticks were an add-on.

--Dave

Well, in that vein: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829130001

I'm going to start compiling a newegg order, I guess.  My machine has zippo in terms of inputs, nevermind MIDI ports of the D-15 variety.  I hope it plays nice with my "real" sound card.