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A mouse for Descent? We used to play with both hands on the keyboard- look, slide, and spin on the number pad, move, fire, etc. on the far left side. We're we a
by jasonjamerson 2y ago
A mouse for Descent? We used to play with both hands on the keyboard- look, slide, and spin on the number pad, move, fire, etc. on the far left side. We're we alone?
- vmatouch 2y agoTwo joysticks ruled.
- nier 2y agoThat’s the way I started but eventually used two FlightSticks. Banking movement with one hand (forward, backward, sideways), rotating around two axis with the other (barrel roll, pitch), and the thumb sticks I used for up/down and left/right. Although I might misremember some details. There was a time when I really wanted to add a pair of pedals, too. Ah, to have that much time to spare again.
- ralphc 2y agoI play Descent I and II today, on period hardware. How do you hook up two joysticks and have them be used in the game?
- claar 2y agoOuch. "period hardware". That does it - I'm officially old.
- ralphc 2y agoI'm 62. I'm period hardware.
- fasa99 2y agolook into "period hardware" which is itself a "dual joystick" (typically literally sold for use in descent). it's a gimmick that sold i.e. why have one joystick when you can have two. Then you should just have a single i/o interface to your MIDI game port.
- nier 2y agoThe Macintosh version of the FlightStick had an ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) plug that had a port on the other end so you could plug in another device. It’s been 30 years. Do you think I might misremember? Maybe it was a FlightStick and a Saitek joystick? If you are running the original game on period hardware and tell me that the software wouldn’t know how to tell two different joysticks apart regardless of which type, then I guess I’d have to admit that there’s something fishy with my memory.
- lotharbot 2y agomost people nowadays play on source ports (D1x-Redux is the current top of the heap) that support multiple controllers.
- kodt 2y agoYeah flightstick was the way to play Descent, I used a Logitech Wingman Light. Never tried two sticks, always controlled strafing with keyboard
- nuancebydefault 2y agoThe wingman was amazing. Lot's of leeway and light and smooth. It seemed to have been built for environments like descent, where your fighter swooshed gracefully through space under any 3d angle.
- ralphc 2y agoTHE way to play Descent was with a Spaceball Avenger. I was a beta tester for one, holding it in your hand was like your brain interfacing directly with the ship. Sadly the sensors broke over the years and I'm settling for joysticks.
- ralphc 2y agoI dug around in my archives and found this post, someone is running Descent in DOSBox on an XP machine and using two USB joysticks and xpadder to set it up. https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/zcycoq/double_joystick_setup_for_descent_is_equally_hard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/zcycoq...
- emorning3 2y agoYou weren't alone, but we just used more hands. I usually did navigation, and my grade school aged son did the shooting while sitting on my lap. Now he's 33 and I'm 64, we'll have to switch places.
- sooperserieous 2y agoHello old me! :) My 6 year old son broke two spacebars firing the Phoenix Cannon one summer...
- emorning3 2y agobwahahaha, I love that! The Circle of Descent continues....
- mortenjorck 2y agoI would sometimes play “co-op“ with my little brother, navigating with a flight stick and the number pad while he managed weapons and firing. It’s fun to see decades later that we weren’t the only ones to play Descent this way!
- bdamm 2y agoI did this with my boy too, it was so much fun and great bonding over easily understood teamwork!
- helpfulContrib 2y ago[dead]
- klyrs 2y agoNo mouse here, only carpal tunnel. I tried playing a few years back and my right hand was locked up within a few minutes.