Reply 47160 of 52886, by Ensign Nemo
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drosse1meyer wrote on 2022-11-29, 23:28:Ensign Nemo wrote on 2022-11-29, 23:14:drosse1meyer wrote on 2022-11-29, 22:49:Thrustmaster Mark II FCS and an intel PCI ethernet card 😀
Forgot how much fun Descent and TIE Fighter are with a real joystick vs keyboard and mouse
Now you just need to add a throttle and rudder pedals for the perfect setup for flight and space sims!
I'll put them on my list for Santa 😁
I hope you've behaved then! BTW - you can also get "twist" joysticks for rudder control, but having pedals makes a big difference imo. You can also use them for driving too. However, you might want to check if your games support rudder controls first. While a lot of DOS games support them, some games like the original Red Baron don't.
If you were a really good boy or girl, Santa could get you a TrackIR. This is a little device that you can attach to your hat that uses head tracking to map your head movement to the game. After rudder pedals, I would argue that TrackIR is the next best device you can pickup for flight and space simming. Rather than having to use keys or a joystick POV hat, you just need to move your head a bit to look around in game. Like most hobbies, there's always more stuff to buy when flight simming! Here's a list of TrackIR support games (you can also map mouse movement to it, but that isn't as good):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TrackIR_Enhanced_games