First post, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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- l33t
I noticed some games like Crusader: No Regret (and its prequel No Remorse), as well as Star Control's melee combat, depends heavily on rotational movement.
Problem is; it is quite uncomfortable and imprecise to make rotational movement with joystick. Mouse is better, but still not precise.
The latest game controller I remember that has rotational controller is Logitech Wingman Warrior, which has a rotational knob on the left of its base to make precise rotational control.. Works nice with 2.5D games like Doom and its clones.
However, it is a vintage hardware. It has gameport connector and serial mouse connector (for its rotating knob), as well as DOS drivers for the knob. I'd love to play Star Control and Crusader on my laptop (using DOSBOX), which unfortunately lacks gameports.
Is there any known modern, USB controllers with rotational knob? Also, if such thing exist, is it programmable? If there is such device, which is capable to translate the knob's rotation into joystick axis/mouse axis, then it fills my need.