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		foxglacier 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came ... 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 6 months ago | [–]

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 6 months ago | [–]

I believe so, yes.

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