First person to email me with the name of two airlines Col. Andy Bush flew after he retired from the Air Force as a hog driver wins a Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog T-Shirt. You must include your SimHQ nickname.
Standard quality potentiometers are cheap, as are the A/D circuits to sample them at ~ 10-12 bits, and then provide an 8-bit value to the computer after oversampling.
Going to high end pots and samplers raises the cost exponentially. (snip)
Unchanged for 30 years? Come on... everything else electronic has been improved. Example: My mouse reads at 3000dpi, 10 years ago a mouse might do 300 dpi. And its an obvious feature to make a joystick better (unless it doesn't, that's what I'd like to see reviewed). If it does make a difference, then the fact that none of the many joystick manufacturers came up with the improvement until now means they probably got together and colluded to keep the status quo. In any case, I'm glad the 30 year period of non-innovation is officially over.
Hmmmm can't wait for this to come up tomorrow for the contest.
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I 'just happend' to connect to thrustmasters ftp by a dedicated FTP application. And in "accessories -> pc -> HOTAS - software -> TARGET" I find the software and manuals for Warthog.
It's still there, and you don't need FTP application, you can go there with a browser:
Manuals are really very short, images are small and low quality, DirectX control panel is actually in French... I haven't installed Target yet, so I don't know if it recognizes Cougar or if it needs a new firmware.
I know I was just hoping for a good early gift time.
Star Citizen Referal Code STAR-MP6J-VFH7
i7-13700K @ 3.40GHz 32GB RAM GeForce 3060RTX MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk lots of SSD's and a good old fashioned 1TB HDD Samsung G9 Odyssey 49" TrackIR 5 with Track Clip Pro Windows 11 64bit Warthog #1397...compliments of SimHQ
MSFF2 > CH > G940 > Cougar > X52. The Warthog should soon head that list, but I've been disappointed many times before. I own them all, and still trying to find a decent replacement for the discontinued MS stick.
G940 is better than X52 and Cougar, even with 'reversal bug' and the faulty throttle and spiking trim wheels? (I don't own one, I am just quoting what people have reported on these forums)
Nice to see a feedback from someone who tried both MSFF2 and CH...
I agree...I have the sticks inorder of overall quality ( ">" =greater than } starting with the MSFF2 and ending with the X52. Actually I would have the G940 ahead of the CH stick if it weren't for the reversal bug. The unmodded cougar joystick was ok for bomber pilots while the Cougar throttle was the best in the business. My X52 was a peice of junk.
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Dangit man...don't post things like that for those of us not yet fortunate enough to have received the items in question....ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!
Star Citizen Referal Code STAR-MP6J-VFH7
i7-13700K @ 3.40GHz 32GB RAM GeForce 3060RTX MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk lots of SSD's and a good old fashioned 1TB HDD Samsung G9 Odyssey 49" TrackIR 5 with Track Clip Pro Windows 11 64bit Warthog #1397...compliments of SimHQ
Added it to my post as I bumped it to the next page.
LOL I think I'll do a mancave them next. lol
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