dalessio@motcid.UUCP (Mario D'Alessio) (01/04/91)
Some games, such as Gauntlet II, allow four player
to play at once. Here are the pin assignments for
the cable. You need two female 9-pin plugs and
one 25-pin plug (don't remember if it's male or
female).
Joystick 3 Parallel Port
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1 6
2 7
3 8
4 9
6 11
8 25
Joystick 4 Parallel Port
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1 2
2 3
3 4
4 5
6 1
8 24
Parallel port pins 18-25 are all connected to ground.
I haven't tried building this myself, so I don't know if
it will work. Good luck!
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******************************************************************ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (01/04/91)
dalessio@motcid.UUCP (Mario D'Alessio) writes: - Some games, such as Gauntlet II, allow four player - to play at once. Here are the pin assignments for - the cable. You need two female 9-pin plugs and - one 25-pin plug (don't remember if it's male or - female). The 25-pin plug must be male to connect to the printer port. The 9-pin plugs must also be male so the (female) joystick plugs can be connected. (Geez, it's late. I hope I haven't mistaken what female and male plugs look like. :^) I haven't made one of these adapters, but would like to. I'm still in the process of solving the dilemma of connecting my NEC 3D to my STe. Should be resolved next week when I receive an IB Computers Switchbox. (Yes, I'm writing this on a TV. Eeeek!) -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (01/05/91)
I've made one of these adapters, it was pretty easy and it works fine with Gauntlet II. Just make sure you don't have your printer plugged in when you start up Gauntlet..... -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan Flame all you want - we'll take more.