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Wohoo =D

Woohoo indeed.

Excellent, thanks!

HuA!!!

Well ain't that a kick in the nuts...spent all weekend working on the new house to get my office and basement ready to build my desk/cockpit area and didn't get a chance to jump on the shirt contest...well fark it.

Great, thanks a lot!

Reschke, there are two more for grabs if I understand correctly.

Yep. We will have another contest soon.

Yeah and with the way that I have been working on this new house I seriously was just kidding but that is my luck with things like this.

Wow!

Thanks guod!

Is the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog going to have a mode selector by any chance? I haven't seen anything that indicates that one way or the other. Thanks in advance.

And yet another question: does anyone have a detailed picture of the switches, flap lever, etc on the throttle base? I have to decide if I am going to change my pit design to use those switches as labeled on the base, or figure out a way to change the lettering on the base so I can make the switches what I want. I have a thought on it, but I need to know exactly what they have labeled those switches as.

Random thought: wouldn't it have been nice if TM had left the switches off of the throttle base and just made an add on switch box, similar to the Saitek ones?

Thanks,
Dud

Can someone correct me if I am wrong. But what I understand so far is that if you own an old TM Cougar, you can still use it with the TM Warthog. So, if I want to use the new Warthog stick, but still want to use my old Cougar throttle I shouldn't have any problems? As long as both the stick and throttle of the Cougar is attached it should be ok to use, right? I think this is very important because if it's true it's going to make flying il2 so much easier for me.

Yes migmiker,you can administrate everything using T.A.R.G.E.T.!

But you still will have the eight axis limit of all the devices plugged together that use T.A.R.G.E.T. Its a directx limitation.

If my understanding is correct, T.A.R.G.E.T. will basically be every bit as capable as the CH Products Control Manager while having a flashier and possibly more intuitive interface.

Can't wait to get my hands on it myself...though I'm assuming that unlike the Cougar's logical programming, it's probably done in software, also just like the CH Control Manager. Makes me wonder how the new scripting language is going to work together with the Cougar if it's supported by T.A.R.G.E.T.

And as for the mode selector question, word is that the "boat switch" on the side of the right throttle works just like the F-16's dogfight/MRM mode switch. Three positions, no spring to center on either extreme.

Thanks Falstar!

Now if I could just see it through all the drool and fog on my monitor...
Dud

First sign of something happening in a long time. Not much, but it's something.

Thrustmaster's "Where to buy" section of Warthog now lists availability at Amazon UK.

Nothing there but hoping there soon will be.

While tinkering with my Cougar, I thought of some neat features that I would like to see in T.A.R.G.E.T.

-Automatic game/sim profile switching. My G5 and G500 mice could do this already. It might have been complicated with the Cougar's hardware logical programming system, but it doesn't look like T.A.R.G.E.T. will use that part at all.

-Axis settings tied to each game/sim profile. By this, I mean deadzones, sensitivity, curves, and even physical axis to DirectInput axis mappings. It's probably possible with the Cougar already if I were to fidget for a bit in Foxy, but I can think of more streamlined ways to do it.

(The latter point hit home when I started faffing about in Enemy Engaged and Crimson Skies, noticing a rather large deadzone for the rudder. Those using twisty-sticks probably wouldn't find it that large, but it becomes very obvious when using rudder pedals. Makes it a bit more difficult to make fine adjustments near center, though it could be worked around with a bit of curve adjustment.)