To: falcon3 (Falcon3 Mailing list) Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V1 : I74 Falcon3 Digest Volume 1 : Issue 74 Mon Nov 23 18:50:07 PST 1992 Compilation copyright (C) 1992 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "falcon3@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "listserv@onion.rain.com" For an index of back issues that are available, send a message containing the line "send index from falcon3" to "netlib@onion.rain.com" Also, the archives are available via ftp from onion.rain.com [147.28.0.161] Today's Topics: Re: Rudder Pedals - which work the masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Mast Joystick ports/Lockups "Gary L." ------------------------------------------------------------ From: masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten) Subject: Re: Rudder Pedals - which work the best >Just a quick question. I want to get some rudder pedals to use with F3.0. >However, I dont know which to buy. My question is this, I could buy Maxx >Rudder pedals for $39, or the Thrustmaster Rudder pedal system for $109. >Now could someone explain to me how 2 things that do the exact same thing >could vary by a factor of 3???? Is there something amazing about the >thrustmaster? I have the Maxx pedals. They work OK, but they're not all that useful for F3, except in landing. Remember the rudder gets progresively less effective with higher speeds and has no effect above 400 (450?) knots. It is easier to control the rudder with pedals than the keyboard. Or have they fixed the keyboard rudder problems? (always seemed like it ignored my keyboard input then, wham, big yaw change). I bought the pedals primarily for AotP. With the new patch, rudder isn't as important, but is still quite useful for lining up shots. Supposedly the TM pedals are a lot sturdier, which explains the price difference (that and TM overcharges for everything). I suspect my Maxx pedals will have a reasonable lifetime, but not forever. Summary, pedals are somewhat useful , but I wouldn't pay $100 for them. I think there may be some conflicts with pedals and using the FCS 'hat'. Any comments? Dave Masten ------------------------------- From: "Gary L." Subject: Joystick ports/Lockups Very interesting... I also have a SB 1.0 with a joystick port. also in the system is a dual serial, paralell,game port card. The SB joystick port was disabled (according to the manual). The game port on the I/O card could not be disabled. Everytime I started Falcon3, I had to recalabrate the joystick. It seems to lose calabration occasionlly during flight, but always needed to recal when restarting the game. Well, I bought a new I/O card without the game port, enabled the game port on the SB. Now things work much better. I wonder if the disable jumper on the SB really works? Wing commander works much better too. For what it's worth... For you people having wierd lockups... Make sure you don't have any IRQ or DMA conflicts. --garyl------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 1 : Issue 74 ]]