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Unread 06-01-2002, 19:01
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Re: USB.....

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Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
I would kinda like to see them (FIRST) come up with a way that we could use USB ports (if thats even possible) cuz there are some pretty sweet joysticks out there....but they use USB connections...

Don't hold your breathe. USB is a much more complicated intereface than a joystick port is. It also uses serial data transfers as opposed to parallel which require encoding and decoding hardware on either end (in the joystick and in the interface).

Matt