A photo of an old PC soundcard. It has a number of audio sockets on its backplate, but also has a second backplate connected by a flat ribbon cable - this backplate is being held up to the camera to show off a 15-pin socket, which is the old PC gameport socket.

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1. Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 03:30:37 JST Tim 🎮

   It's Friday night, it's cold outside and I'm still working on that whole social life thing, so here's a long rambly thread about the 15-pin PC gameport and its historical significance, because it's something I want to practice writing about at length (if anyone was silly enough to give me a PhD for something, it'd be for this nonsense).

   Feel free to mute this thread if that's not your thing - or if it is, bookmark it for later, or prepare to be en-knowledge-ified!

   #retrocomputing #retrogaming