Overall Review: The two triggers, four buttons, and the directional hat on the joystick itself are well placed, easy and intuitive to manipulate, and feel solid without being sticky or stiff. There is no way to convert from Right- to Left-orientation. I'm ambidextrous, but lefties are out of luck when it comes to this joystick. Some of us with busy desktops don't have the real estate to manage that! I would have preferred more buttons on the stick itself as opposed to on the base, but that's personal preference, which isn't worth taking an egg off. Honestly, the throttle lever is pretty awkwardly placed, as are buttons 7-12, though they aren't as bad.
The rest of the review must be relegated to my OTHER THOUGHTS. Suffice to say, it was impossible.īut the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro has allowed me to recapture the joys and the thrills of my favourite space combat sim, and with the click of the trigger, I'm eight years old again, when Star Wars was cool and Vader wasn't a whiny brat with mommy issues. Well, now I'm twenty-five, and through the joys of Web-surfing, I've managed to get Tie Fighter running on Windows 7 圆4, and I tried playing with a controller-style pad. I would play that game for hours upon hours, and it was always awesome. I remember playing Star Wars: Tie Fighter with an old five-button Gravis Gamepad Joystick that attached via a Gameport. Chances it works in pure DOS without software help - driver or otherwise.Pros: I grew up in the 90s, when games were released on floppy disks and when creativity was king when fancy graphics were impossible with the available technology and so real thought and effort had to be put in to make a game successful. The Logitech Wingman you're about to buy is a normal, two-button joystick. I've never own MS Sidewinder Precision Pro, but it seems a gameport joystick's inability to work in pure DOS is an exception instead of the rule. Logitech Wingman Warrior needs driver, but it is actually a mouse driver to enable the rotating button instead of joystick driver. Thrustmaster stick enable its programmable buttons through downloader (instead of drivers) and keyboard pass-through. To be frank, I've never had any gameport joystick that requires driver to work in pure DOS. The MS Sidewinder Precision Pro was designed as a Windows joystick, but since there were a lot of DOS games still, Microsoft added legacy drivers that are loaded into Windows to allow the joystick to function with DOS games while running them through Windows.īut of course, Microsoft was trying to ween everyone off of DOS, so naturally they didn't include pure-DOS drivers. No idea if it will work or not for what you want it for, but I can tell you why the Precision Pro doesn't work in real DOS because I've owned one since they were new.
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