[chilepepper]

true story: i bought a M$ sidewinder joystick, the first version of it. got it to work with my windows95plus. worked ok.

bought a new game which needed an upgrade of directX. downloaded (from microsoft) and installed the new version of directx. guess what. no support for the first version of the M$ sidewinder joystick

GAME OVER!

Microsoft won't even support their own products!

[Bush2000]

bought a new game which needed an upgrade of directX. downloaded (from microsoft) and installed the new version of directx. guess what. no support for the first version of the M$ sidewinder joystick

I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure that somebody in the Linux community will be glad to provide you with a device driver so that you can play games under Linux. /SARCASM