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  1. It is easy to add a second joystick to the IBM PC.  The standard
  2. female connector on the IBM PC's game port is a 15 pin connector.
  3. A joystick only requires 7 lines to run.  Your first joystick
  4. uses the first 8 pins of the 15.  You can add a second joystick
  5. on the last 7 pins, utilizing all 15 pins on the connector.
  6.  
  7. You can make yourself a Y cable (male 15-pin to 2 female 15-pin
  8. connectors) running from the game port to the two joysticks.
  9. Connect the pins as follows:
  10.  
  11.  
  12.      Game adapter       Joystick  #1       Joystick #2
  13.           Pin                Pin                Pin
  14.  
  15.           1                   1
  16.           2                   2
  17.           3                   3
  18.           4                   4
  19.           5                   5
  20.           6                   6
  21.           7                   7
  22.           8                   8
  23.           9                                      1
  24.           10                                     2
  25.           11                                     3
  26.           12                                     4 and 5
  27.           13                                     6
  28.           14                                     7
  29.           15                                     8
  30.  
  31.  
  32. This works great with Flight Simulator, F15 Strike Eagle, and
  33. Larry Bird & Julius Irving Go One on One.