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Joystick for ME and W10?

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First post, by senrew

Posted on 2020-12-17, 02:51

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Need to find a USB joystick that I can move between my Win ME and Win 10 systems. I found a few pages claiming the older USB sidewinder precisions and such still work under 10, albeit without the Sidewinder software support.

Does anyone have any thoughts on these or other models that could fill this purpose? Hoping for advice before I start trolling ebay for old joysticks.

The ME machine is strictly a Windows game machine, no need for DOS considerations here.

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Reply 1 of 5, by Horun

Posted on 2020-12-17, 03:28

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Either a MS Sidewinder Precision 2 or Logitech Extreme 3d Pro joystick. I have both and they work from Vista thru Win 10. (have heard that after Win10 1909 there are some issues with these older joysticks but am running 1809 LTSC)
Actually the Sidewinder works under Win98SE too, and so does the Logitech.....
edit: fixed my error I think 😀

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Reply 2 of 5, by 1541

Posted on 2020-12-17, 09:04

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You can even use one of these Sidewinders that came with that USB-> Gameport Adapters.
This would enable you to use it with USB on Win10 and with the Gameport on DOS machines...
The only feature that is not supported any more is "Force Feedback" as far as I'm aware about.

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Reply 3 of 5, by senrew

Posted on 2020-12-17, 16:15

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Found a Precision Pro with the USB adapter on ebay and ordered that. Let's see how it goes when it gets here.

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Reply 4 of 5, by IlhanK

Posted on 2020-12-17, 23:28

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My Thrustmaster T.flight Hotas X works nicely with Win 98SE and Win 10

Reply 5 of 5, by Horun

Posted on 2020-12-18, 01:05

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senrew wrote on 2020-12-17, 16:15:

Found a Precision Pro with the USB adapter on ebay and ordered that. Let's see how it goes when it gets here.

Good choice !

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