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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was pretty awesome because you could use it as a joystick port!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While the very first joysticks probably used serial ports. Common joysticks used a separate port that had less pins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the pin number right, but the port needed to be the other gender, at least for my Gravis gamepad.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah... I had one of those too... Definitely 9 pin serial.

What's pictured in the OP is almost certainly CGA / EGA and not serial though.