[sorenjan]

Or a gamepad port on a Soundblaster card.

[foxglacier]

It felt like back then everything was a bodge and computers were somehow made without any thought to gaming or mice even after they became common. Wasn't the game port really a MIDI port and gamepads pretended to be MIDI devices?

[nsxwolf]

No, on the original Sound Blaster there is a jumper that switches the port between a UART for MIDI and a quad timer for IBM compatible joystick.

[tracker1]

I believe so, yes.

[jajuuka]

I remember being blown away when that changed. "I can just use a USB port and not have to use the gamepad port?!"

[tracker1]

I'd really like a modern version of the SB AWE32... I do wonder sometimes why front panel audio connectors never changed to a USB motherboard connector, I know it would be a few dollars more. I used to use a cheap USB dac on the front for wired headphones as the FP audio just never sounded that good..