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Spitfire_x86   07-04-2003 at 04:35:57 AM

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Steven21   07-04-2003 at 06:32:39 AM
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They were crappy anyways, i think they need to discontinue some of there other products and Focus on making there crappy OS's Better.

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Anonymous   07-04-2003 at 09:47:55 AM
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Why, they are good stuff?

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jaythaman   07-04-2003 at 09:27:07 PM
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Cool Now we can buy them on discounted prices. I bought my Sidwinder dual strike after it was dicontinued on 1/5th it's original price.

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kinney   07-05-2003 at 02:24:13 AM
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I had a sidewinder gamepad it was good stuff. Back in the day the sidewinder joystick was popular competition against the logitech wingman warrior that I had chosen over it.
This is good news for logitech mostly. The smaller companies like thrustmaster (actually not so small anymore) and gravis will also benefit.

I'd take a Gravis gamepad over any company though... come on, its THE PC gamepad. If I was to by a throttle, Thrustmaster was always the definitive in my mind in that market too.
MS was just mass marketed, but decent quality filler.

If they were smart they'd just make an adapter for their Xbox controller to work on the PC, if you got a couple xbox controllers in the house it might encourage a couple people to go ahead and pick up an xbox..

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namek0   07-05-2003 at 04:01:06 AM
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That's pretty cool, I had a sidewinder game pad from back in the day, but lately microsoft gear has been terrible

unless they introduce something fantastic, I'll be sticking with my logitech stuff

It's all good ^_^

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Confoundicator   07-05-2003 at 04:11:08 AM
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Not the greatest ergonomics or bells and whistles but you always know that Micro$oft keyboards, joysticks, mice are going to <b>work</b> and be (mostly) well designed and reliable. At least that's been my experience.

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nach   07-05-2003 at 09:47:52 AM
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Anyone know how to adjust the return to centre force of the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro on XP?

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the_Prisoner   07-06-2003 at 05:34:04 AM
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Thrustmaster products are the best, they are TANKS, very solid items. Best joysticks and throttles, driving items and etc. Very programable.

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