I wonder about Thrustmaster Top Gun Afterburner --a cheap set of joystick and throttle. Well, it does come with throttle anyway, so I may be able to use it to play more serious flightsims on DOSBox (like F-16 Combat Pilot and Falcon 3.0) on my laptop. I don't plan to use HOTAS Cougar to play on my laptop. In fact, the controllers need to be cheap and light so I can easily carry it anywhere.

Alas, many DOS-based flightsims do not support throttle device, so I have to make the throttle working in digital mode. That is, to configure the throttle to emulate key presses. For instance, if the game uses the '+' button to increase throttle, then you need to program the throttle to emulate repeated pressing of the '+' button (++++++++ when throttling up, etc).

Well, "hardcore" Thrusmaster throttle devices (like TQS or WCS) can be programmed to behave such way (digital mode), but can I do the same with that one flimsy throttle that comes with Top Gun Afterburner? Or does it only work in analog mode?