RE:

[Gary Henry <HenryG@mail.dec.com>]

Vic:

Thanks for the comments I will try to look into this but I am guessing 
that all game port solutions will have the same probem since the 760E 
is using i/o address 200-201 which is the 'standard' game port adapter 
address.

I will keep checking....

Gary


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From: 	Vic Gonzalez[SMTP:vicgonzlez@interserf.net]
Sent: 	Saturday, July 27, 1996 11:15 AM
To: 	Gary Henry
Cc: 	THINKPAD@cs.utk.edu
Subject: 	Re: 

    I have been looking into the game port "add-on" issue.  Seems like 
the
best bet is a PCMCIA gameport known as known as "QuickShot" and sold by
DataVision, 1-800-771-7466 for $69, among others I'm sure.  I have not
purchased one yet so I can't comment on performance.  
     A company called Colorado Spectrum used to make a serial port Game
Port, but they went out of business.  I found one of these and found it
pretty much useless as it seems to need a special driver for each game.
Even the games they had drivers for didn't seem to work though the 
hardware
diagnostics said everything was fine.
     I have heard that there are others such as parallel port gameports
available in the far east or Australia but I have been unable to 
identify a
source.
     Hope this helps.
-Vic

 At 07:17 AM 7/27/96 -0400, you wrote:
>All:
>
>We have the need to install a Game port on 2 of our 760E's but it 
seems 
>as though IBM when they made this machine said they were not putting a 

>game port on it(one of the differences between the 760E and the ED) 
but 
>in reality all they did was not put the hardware connector on the back 

>since the system thinks there is a game port on the machine at I/O 
>address 200-201.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get a game port to work on the 

>760E?  
>
>Does anyone know of a box, maybe,  that will connect to a serial port, 

>and give you game port functionality??
>
>Its too bad really the 760E is a real nice machine but I have had it 
>for a week now and it seems that in true IBM form they have really 
>missed the boat on some basic functionality i.e. suspend hibernate 
does 
>not work properly
>
>Gary Henry
>Henryg@mail.dec.com
>
>