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Looking for a very old joystick...
VThornheart
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A thread over at the games subforum got me thinking about this subject again.
I used to own this really old joystick: the rod and axis were metal (at least, as far as you could see on the outside), and it had a button on the top and two on the side (though they both mapped to the same button in games). The shaft itself was thin, no wider than the width of a ball-point pen, and it had a beige plastic top where the button was. The shaft was probably no more than 4-6 inches high, much shorter than the shaft of modern joysticks (you had to play it more with your thumb and index finger than with your whole hand like most joysticks due to it being so short). The rest of it aside from the rod and axis was a beige plastic. The base of the unit was no larger than a clenched fist.
The thing was durable as hell, extremely accurate, and never (as far as I remember in my years of using it) had to be recalibrated. I believe there were manual axis adjustment sliders on the joystick itself along the sides of the base if you ever had to, but it never seemed necessary.
It used the old joystick port (the ones that came on sound cards back in the day). In fact, I've been installing the same Soundblaster 64 card whenever I've upgraded my computer over the years just to have a joystick port so I could use this joystick.
Anyways, I lost mine the last time I moved and I'd love to find a replacement, but I don't remember the brand name, nor who produced it, nor if it'd even be available for purchase anymore.
Does this description of a joystick seem familiar to anyone? If it does, can you point me in the direction of who might have made it/what brand of joystick it was so I can try and find it somewhere?
I don't know how common the description is, but I don't remember ever seeing another like it. Hopefully someone else remembers using one of these.
I used to own this really old joystick: the rod and axis were metal (at least, as far as you could see on the outside), and it had a button on the top and two on the side (though they both mapped to the same button in games). The shaft itself was thin, no wider than the width of a ball-point pen, and it had a beige plastic top where the button was. The shaft was probably no more than 4-6 inches high, much shorter than the shaft of modern joysticks (you had to play it more with your thumb and index finger than with your whole hand like most joysticks due to it being so short). The rest of it aside from the rod and axis was a beige plastic. The base of the unit was no larger than a clenched fist.
The thing was durable as hell, extremely accurate, and never (as far as I remember in my years of using it) had to be recalibrated. I believe there were manual axis adjustment sliders on the joystick itself along the sides of the base if you ever had to, but it never seemed necessary.
It used the old joystick port (the ones that came on sound cards back in the day). In fact, I've been installing the same Soundblaster 64 card whenever I've upgraded my computer over the years just to have a joystick port so I could use this joystick.
Anyways, I lost mine the last time I moved and I'd love to find a replacement, but I don't remember the brand name, nor who produced it, nor if it'd even be available for purchase anymore.
Does this description of a joystick seem familiar to anyone? If it does, can you point me in the direction of who might have made it/what brand of joystick it was so I can try and find it somewhere?
I don't know how common the description is, but I don't remember ever seeing another like it. Hopefully someone else remembers using one of these.
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