I think it was made for old people. Like my grandma Who moves her mouse specifically to the location. Then moves her hands off and presses the buttons separately. Like the device can't handle moving and selecting at the same time
This is basically similar to the early prototypes of IBM's TrackPoint, which started out as a miniature joystick stuck in the middle of the keyboard, and was eventually downsized even further to the size of a pencil eraser. However, the TrackPoint uses some rather sophisticated sensors to automatically adjust its sensitivity to both fast movement and fine detail, which this device clearly lacks, thus necessitating the manual selection between different sensitivity settings.
"I hope you don't mind disk loading sounds" Are you kidding? That's premium nostalgia there. That, along with the sound of a dot matrix printer and the POST beep.
i want an IBM Soothing Sounds CD. an hour plus of just computer humming, complete with occasional pc speaker beeps, disk loading sounds and the errant key clack. who can make this happen? i'd buy it.
already done, look up stuff like "hours of relaxing computer sounds" and the like on here... been around for years, one evil sod even made one thats relaxing then...god damn dialup modem sounds BLARE at you....LOL.. evil.. i love it.
Use the right mouse button to put the mouse in yoke mode. In yoke mode, mouse alone controls aileron and elevator; mouse with left button down controls rudder and throttle. That's what I remember from flying with FS4 20 years or so ago.
ive been watching this LGR for about 4 years, i do not own a gaming pc nor have i ever and i gotta say its always kept me entertained thanks for such an awesome show!
I just LOVE how you just naturally seem to balance the seriousness of presenting facts and properly demonstrating a product with a "this is just a UA-cam video, not a pp-presentation for work", nonchalant attitude (that many other reviewers unfortunately have). Love it, thanks!
My dad has the tac 2 joystick. It’s in a box with all his commodore stuff. It was really cool getting to check out that era of games being born after it.
Couldn't they have made a thin metal base that slots into the device and slides under the keyboard, using the weight of it to hold itself in place? Keyboads were heavy back then. Still better than sticky frickin' tape.
For some reason I think my Amiga needs one of these. The system switch likely was used to switch between Microsoft Mouse mode and Mouse Systems mode, the latter of which natively supported 3-button mice. I that thing was designed to be attached to a nice heavy IBM Model F or Model M, bet it wouldn't slide around with one of them weighing it down!
Id love to see anything ADAM Computer related, thats pretty odd. We had one when I was a kid, along with a Colceo , and it was a very interesting computer. Its main problem was the power supply was in the printer so when it shat out you had to get a whole new printer, and we went thru at least 3 of them. My Dad was in an ADAM club and even went to some of the conventions called ADAM-Con in South Bend, IN.
Have you noticed how rare it is for electronic items to come packaged on styrofoam nowadays, everything seems to be cardboard now, Is it an environmental thing or the fact it builds static? Oh, I got that TacPro stick for my C64, it's pretty awkward to control as the stick is a straight line, rather than ergonomic.
Styrofoam takes hundreds of years to biodegrade and the packaging takes up a lot of space. Cardboard is the most recycled material on the planet. It's probably also cheaper, which makes for a nice combo with the environmental aspect.
I still remember when I got my NES off Ebay and actually made a remark to my dad at the fact that 'Normally you'd see Washing Machines and appliances in Styrofoam, didn't think they'd packaged consoles in this stuff...'
Our school has just put up a really cool display made of 3.5" floppy disks, and over half of them (about 250 of them) were drivers for this in grey and blue. Who needs that many drivers?
ahh, back in the days when hardware came with all needed accessories! Don't have a 3 1/2" floppy? They include the 5 1/4" floppy! Don't have a 9-pin serial port, they include the adapter! Now you have to buy USB cables just to use a brand new printer!
Yeaah, but now you can also use the shitty wifi to also print. The majority of products come with what you NEED to run it (although it isn't always preferable), unless your name is Nintendo.
DvdXploitr Printers are special little puppies: they have, to the best of my knowledge, never included the data cable, only the power cable. I remember zero printers in the 90ies shipping with cables vs. at least 4, spanning 1991 till 1998, shipping without. And those printers were expensive back then! And it's not like there was a ton of connectivity options, they only had one data port on the device itself. It is perhaps conceivable that it's because the printer side was standardized (Centronics port), but the computer side was not. Some computers could have a built in DB25 connector with Centronics compatible signalling, others would have a Centronics connector, yet others didn't have anything and you'd need a cartridge or extension card.
Siana Gearz Yes Printers where rarely shipped with Cabels. The Reason, so the producers of this Things, are taht every one needs diffrent lenghth of Cable.
@@arthas640 thats not a fair comparison because thats an absurdly cheap price. Thats like saying a 100k car is stupid because I just bought a house for 5k
Wow! I actually had that exact one at 2:00 when my family got a Commodore 128! It was never very good because it was just too small, and the button was oddly placed. The idea though made sense as an early portable mouse control thing before touch pads existed
Wow, the product page showed the ergo stick. I had the ergostick for my C64. It was the most comfortable durable joystick I ever owned. Made of soft rubber, and had finger grooves molded into it for holding in your left hand. Trigger was perfectly placed for your left index finger. Good Stuff!!!!
I remember when school got windows 2, we never had any sort of pointing devices :o) Went straight to mice after that. I LOVE disk loading sounds ;o) Funny how it seems that Microsoft's products are the most compatible with this!
Awesome! I have one of these that I used with a couple of my old laptops. My version has a coiled cord, and has heavy duty velcro to attach it to the computer. It also came with a little padded carrying case.
I just realized that the Arkanoid port was made by NOVALOGIC. So weird, I loved all their military sim games from the late 90s. I didn't know they did that kinda stuff in the early 90s.
From the thumbnail I had assumed it was much larger, and am shocked by how small it was. I thought it would be big enough to really grasp, something where you might be able to have some fine control over the motion. I guess it is a bit like the trackpoint though, and those worked fairly well, at least for normal computing, rather than gaming, but I guess the way it is shaped and has to be held makes it harder to use.
Adding autofire to TAC-2 isn't hard. It may be possible to make one button auto fire and another button single fire. If you don't want to open the joystick you can always add the autofire to the cable or make some sort of "dongle" between. There are also commercial products like PointMaster Fire Control and Blaster Auto-Fire. They are made for Atari but should work with C64 also.
I have an ICONtroller that is made for Commodore 64. It plugged in between your joystick and the joystick port. It was just a mini version of your joystick, and it worked great. For games that used the keyboard and joystick, it was VERY convenient to have a tiny joystick mounted on the side of the keyboard.
I remember seeing these at Electronics Boutique back in the 80s, for the C64/128. I didn't know they released them for the PC as well. Would you do a GEOS review? That's an interesting bit of computer history.
Lazy Game Reviews Not too keen, eh? I guess you won't be *commanding* any attention for those kinds of videos. HEPH HEPH HEPH HEPH. oh wait did I do that right?
Ahh the good old days, I remember strolling into Egghead computer and checking out the games and accessories. That's where I bought my very first sound card and CD-ROM! a Creative Technology Soundblaster-16 and 2X CD-ROM. I also purchased my first modem there too, a AT&T internal 14.4 (when most people were using external modems) later I got external modems when people were switching to internal, oh well! I've never been a trend follower.
thats the sad part. im not really a classic pc gamer unless i find what im looking for on Steam, but ur videos really take me back. I love your channel. im not so much into videogames as much, but now more into graphics/animation and writing, and creating my 1st board game.
This is so rad. I had some of these controllers back in the day for my ZX Spectrum but I think they were unlicensed bootlegs or euro variants since they were released under other companies names.
THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT ODD DEVICES THAT I KNEW EXISTED AND THE PRICES ARE USUALLY VERY OUTRAGEOUS FOR THE LITTLE YOU GET, WHAT ODD THINGS, VERY COOL THAT YOU FIND ALL OF THOSE VERY INTERESTING ODD ITEMS AND SHOW THEM WORKING EXPLAIN IN DETAIL ABOUT THE ITEMS
Whatculture or Gameranx man, these channels need a music composer to score these great channels. LGR and the above mentioned, Thank You for your videos!! We love em!🔥💪
back when I had my pentium 1 166mhz as a teenager, I had a small ass desk and there wasn't much room for a standard mouse. so I chose a trackball. I kinda miss it. believe it or not I got really good at playing unreal tournament 1 with that trackball lol
This worked really well in 3.11a as a mouse in situations with little/no mouse space, in lieu of a trackball there was not much else out there that was any good. Suncom started as a maker of controllers for 8-bit C-64 and Atari 400/800 line. They had a small joystick I can't recall the name of, but it was massively durable.
I remember seeing ads for the Commodore version of this! Always thought it was cute. As for Flight Simulator, I definitely remember being able to fly it with the mouse, there was some button or key to toggle the mouse between pointing and flying.
I absolutely love these videos. Nothing calms me like experimental 90s tech and people spouting specs I know nothing about. "It consisted of four rendering pipelines, with hardware T&L, and some limited pixel shader support. Innovatively the chip has 3 MiB of embedded 1T-SRAM for use as ultra-fast low-latency (6.2 ns) texture and framebuffer/Z-buffer storage allowing 10.4 GB/second bandwidth (extremely fast for the time)." Aahhh...
Oh man I love these videos, and seeing that TAC-2 made me all warm and fuzzy inside; I loved that joystick. Sure it wasn't comfortable at all, but somehow I just loved it. And it was better than the Atari 2600-joystick I was used to before.
The RS232 serial port was not IBM specific, it was its own standard. We use RS232C ports on industrial control computers to this day. DCEs (like the MDS 97/9810 series of data radios) use a DB25 serial connector, I don't know why DTEs generally use a DB9 and DCEs seem to lean DB25. It's getting harder to connect to them with PCs, as the standard PC serial port has been phased out and USB to serial devices vary wildly in quality. I freaking love your videos, bee tee dubs.
I believe the switch on the top assigns the button to the stick function button. In position 1 it sets the button to button 1, position 2 sets the button to button 2 and so on and so forth.
Top button on stick is a mouse button. The three mode selector front of the stick is a selector that is that button a left, middle or right mouse button.
Disk loading sounds are therapeutic. Disk error sounds on the other hand... I'm still recovering from when I lost important assignments and personal files on floppies!!!!! >_
"Stuff like electric shavers and...whatever else" That cracked me up, since I was watching this video on one of two philips monitors that sit on my desk xD Love your sense of humor, Clint!
We had the original C64 version of this, which attached to the side of one's C64 with a "poster square" adhesive. It was the most compact C64 joystick available, and made a more-than-adequate substitute for the mice that other computer systems seemed to require. (I remember liking it a lot better than the 1-button Amiga mouse, at least.) I think I remember the TAC 20 joystick also; we got one for our first PC because the local computer store at the time didn't have an MS-DOS version of the Icontroller.
The way said funky device is held is ironically like a claw mouse, you rest your index finger lightly on the stick using your side thumb to press the three buttons on the bottom. I know this because a long long time ago our school mac had one of these devices attached to it, and it was used for drawing applications and various other crap and like. LGR like most of the students back then had no idea how to use it. I understood it right away by its shape (blame certin arcade games where you rest your hand in a similar manner) you were suppose to grip the sides like a claw mouse of today though few noticed it and it was kinda tiny, it needed to be lengthened a few cm's. Its actually pretty useful at times.
FWIW, I had one of these back in the day... it worked much better not attached to the keyboard. A couple things he missed (or just didn't understand): the button on the joystick was a normal mouse button... Which button? well, that's what the selector at the top was for! Most of the time, you leave the selector to 1 for a left-click. The "System Selector" switch on the "front" would have been for Microsoft Mouse mode (3 button) or PC Mouse mode (2 button).
I had the Commodore 64 version of this, and loved it, the one button layout worked out better using the bottom of your thumb while playing a game. I got so used to this normal Joysticks felt weird when I would use them.
I think it was made for old people. Like my grandma
Who moves her mouse specifically to the location. Then moves her hands off and presses the buttons separately.
Like the device can't handle moving and selecting at the same time
It's a common condition among the elderly, the old man mouse syndrome
Dylan that legitimately makes me sad
i liked your comment like your grandma uses her mouse
This is basically similar to the early prototypes of IBM's TrackPoint, which started out as a miniature joystick stuck in the middle of the keyboard, and was eventually downsized even further to the size of a pencil eraser. However, the TrackPoint uses some rather sophisticated sensors to automatically adjust its sensitivity to both fast movement and fine detail, which this device clearly lacks, thus necessitating the manual selection between different sensitivity settings.
That is an awesome shirt, I used to play Space Cadet Pinball all the time as a kid. Shame it's not in the newer versions of Windows...
You can download it on Win10. It's really small
Jack Egan and its super easy to find too.
Windows hates children confirmed
I have fond memories of not knowing how to play it...
My memories of space cadet pinball are of my grandma and I playing together all the time, taking turns on her old dinosaur computer, I miss those days
"I hope you don't mind disk loading sounds"
Are you kidding? That's premium nostalgia there. That, along with the sound of a dot matrix printer and the POST beep.
The POST beep, it ain't complete without the sound of the floppy disks seek.
MIND disk loading sounds? They make me happy.
As they should.
It has been a long time I didnt hear these calming sounds
I am glad I'm not the only one!
Me, too! Gotta love those classics! :D
I grew up with those sounds :3
i want an IBM Soothing Sounds CD. an hour plus of just computer humming, complete with occasional pc speaker beeps, disk loading sounds and the errant key clack. who can make this happen? i'd buy it.
noapparentfunction floppytron May have something
already done, look up stuff like "hours of relaxing computer sounds" and the like on here... been around for years, one evil sod even made one thats relaxing then...god damn dialup modem sounds BLARE at you....LOL.. evil.. i love it.
Not THAT is a lofi beats to chill and study to
You can make this happen.
You
Use the right mouse button to put the mouse in yoke mode. In yoke mode, mouse alone controls aileron and elevator; mouse with left button down controls rudder and throttle.
That's what I remember from flying with FS4 20 years or so ago.
THIS IS THE ICONTROLLER
IT TROLLS ICONS
I WOULD RECOMMEND NOT BEING TROLLED BY IT
Dammit... I'm 8 months too late...
MegaZsolti xdddddddddddddddd
MegaZsolti xd
...and 10 months later, this is not still the top comment!!
ive been watching this LGR for about 4 years, i do not own a gaming pc nor have i ever and i gotta say its always kept me entertained thanks for such an awesome show!
i do not know why i chose this video to finally comment lol
I just LOVE how you just naturally seem to balance the seriousness of presenting facts and properly demonstrating a product with a "this is just a UA-cam video, not a pp-presentation for work", nonchalant attitude (that many other reviewers unfortunately have). Love it, thanks!
My dad has the tac 2 joystick. It’s in a box with all his commodore stuff. It was really cool getting to check out that era of games being born after it.
"THIS works."
*immediately dies*
"Oh."
Omg floppy disk sounds. Haven't heard that in over 15 years.
I want more of the sounds of old stuff!
Im very glad LGR puts himself in his videos now!!!
Hate to break it to you, but I've been in my videos since I started UA-cam. :)
I just don't appear in every single video, since I don't see the need.
Everyone here is talking about disk loading noises and here I am enjoying the stock music at the beginning that WhatCulture uses.
Couldn't they have made a thin metal base that slots into the device and slides under the keyboard, using the weight of it to hold itself in place? Keyboads were heavy back then. Still better than sticky frickin' tape.
I have an undying love for the graphic design on the boxes of these products.
Clint. Dude. You make me so happy. If ever I'm feeling down and I happen to click an LGR video, I will always feel a whole lot better. Thank you
"this thing's weird and old"
perfect, 10/10
For some reason I think my Amiga needs one of these. The system switch likely was used to switch between Microsoft Mouse mode and Mouse Systems mode, the latter of which natively supported 3-button mice. I that thing was designed to be attached to a nice heavy IBM Model F or Model M, bet it wouldn't slide around with one of them weighing it down!
Id love to see anything ADAM Computer related, thats pretty odd. We had one when I was a kid, along with a Colceo , and it was a very interesting computer. Its main problem was the power supply was in the printer so when it shat out you had to get a whole new printer, and we went thru at least 3 of them. My Dad was in an ADAM club and even went to some of the conventions called ADAM-Con in South Bend, IN.
No Doom or Duke Nukem, much disapoint. :-)
Have you noticed how rare it is for electronic items to come packaged on styrofoam nowadays, everything seems to be cardboard now,
Is it an environmental thing or the fact it builds static?
Oh, I got that TacPro stick for my C64, it's pretty awkward to control as the stick is a straight line, rather than ergonomic.
Might just be cheaper.
Styrofoam takes hundreds of years to biodegrade and the packaging takes up a lot of space. Cardboard is the most recycled material on the planet. It's probably also cheaper, which makes for a nice combo with the environmental aspect.
VaterYester Also in some environments the Styrofoam can become caustic and ruin the items stored in it.
I still remember when I got my NES off Ebay and actually made a remark to my dad at the fact that 'Normally you'd see Washing Machines and appliances in Styrofoam, didn't think they'd packaged consoles in this stuff...'
I don't know what the reason is but I'm thankful for it. There's no more annoying sound than squeaking styrofoam.
Our school has just put up a really cool display made of 3.5" floppy disks, and over half of them (about 250 of them) were drivers for this in grey and blue. Who needs that many drivers?
ahh, back in the days when hardware came with all needed accessories! Don't have a 3 1/2" floppy? They include the 5 1/4" floppy! Don't have a 9-pin serial port, they include the adapter! Now you have to buy USB cables just to use a brand new printer!
Sounds hillarous, but its sadly the Truth.
Yeaah, but now you can also use the shitty wifi to also print. The majority of products come with what you NEED to run it (although it isn't always preferable), unless your name is Nintendo.
RRW That is why the Wii sucked for me, tons of shit to buy...like the classic controller and motion plus...
DvdXploitr Printers are special little puppies: they have, to the best of my knowledge, never included the data cable, only the power cable. I remember zero printers in the 90ies shipping with cables vs. at least 4, spanning 1991 till 1998, shipping without. And those printers were expensive back then! And it's not like there was a ton of connectivity options, they only had one data port on the device itself.
It is perhaps conceivable that it's because the printer side was standardized (Centronics port), but the computer side was not. Some computers could have a built in DB25 connector with Centronics compatible signalling, others would have a Centronics connector, yet others didn't have anything and you'd need a cartridge or extension card.
Siana Gearz
Yes Printers where rarely shipped with Cabels. The Reason, so the producers of this Things, are taht every one needs diffrent lenghth of Cable.
maybe the antistatic cleaning pad was indented for cleaning the surfaces before sticking the sticky tape on to them.
Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, $99.95?! In 1990? That would be about $186 in 2017, absolutely insane pricepoint, no wonder it didn't take off.
For a good frame of reference, not long after this... thing came out, I got a kickass jetski with a trailer for $100
Arthas Menethil like, used? Because even then that’s.... way too cheap
@@arthas640 thats not a fair comparison because thats an absurdly cheap price. Thats like saying a 100k car is stupid because I just bought a house for 5k
@@grootsChannel a 100k car IS stupid
@@dewdop It is but it's still an unfair comparison
Wow! I actually had that exact one at 2:00 when my family got a Commodore 128!
It was never very good because it was just too small, and the button was oddly placed. The idea though made sense as an early portable mouse control thing before touch pads existed
I love when you do videos on older technology. I'm really into old technology so it makes me happy :)
Clint, long time viewer here, but only watching this in 2020. To see you do that voice live is just awesome. Never gets old!
Wow, the product page showed the ergo stick. I had the ergostick for my C64. It was the most comfortable durable joystick I ever owned. Made of soft rubber, and had finger grooves molded into it for holding in your left hand. Trigger was perfectly placed for your left index finger. Good Stuff!!!!
I remember when school got windows 2, we never had any sort of pointing devices :o) Went straight to mice after that. I LOVE disk loading sounds ;o) Funny how it seems that Microsoft's products are the most compatible with this!
Awesome! I have one of these that I used with a couple of my old laptops. My version has a coiled cord, and has heavy duty velcro to attach it to the computer. It also came with a little padded carrying case.
LGR, I've been following for some years now, I just wanted to say your videos are awesome! Even your let's play! Keep up the awesome work man!
Nice one LGR! Love that NCR pc of your's!!
Thanks! That's one of my favorite machines :)
I just realized that the Arkanoid port was made by NOVALOGIC. So weird, I loved all their military sim games from the late 90s. I didn't know they did that kinda stuff in the early 90s.
From the thumbnail I had assumed it was much larger, and am shocked by how small it was. I thought it would be big enough to really grasp, something where you might be able to have some fine control over the motion. I guess it is a bit like the trackpoint though, and those worked fairly well, at least for normal computing, rather than gaming, but I guess the way it is shaped and has to be held makes it harder to use.
Love this series man! So interesting that all this stuff was made. Really a different time.
I still use tac-2 with my commodore 64 even today. Fantastic joystick that only lacks an autofire switch to be perfect.
Adding autofire to TAC-2 isn't hard. It may be possible to make one button auto fire and another button single fire. If you don't want to open the joystick you can always add the autofire to the cable or make some sort of "dongle" between. There are also commercial products like PointMaster Fire Control and Blaster Auto-Fire. They are made for Atari but should work with C64 also.
I have an ICONtroller that is made for Commodore 64. It plugged in between your joystick and the joystick port. It was just a mini version of your joystick, and it worked great.
For games that used the keyboard and joystick, it was VERY convenient to have a tiny joystick mounted on the side of the keyboard.
Oh. I see you've been working on shooting a crt monitor. Proud of you.
Every time I see old tech like this I always think of how I can re-purpose it
Nothing like some Oddware to end a Friday. There's just something so relaxing about a new episode of LGR.
The thing that made my day even better: eating lunch while watching a LGR vid. Thank you for supplying my lunchtime entertainment!
I come to watch your videos because they bring me peace. It’s an escape from the absurdity that we are living in 2020. Thank you brother
I love your voice, and your videos. :D Loving seeing the odd things that came out in the past. Keep up the good work!
The video says no mature content but this guy keeps going on about a wonderful package.
I love this kind of ended in a 'ragequit'
I love disk loading sounds. Makes it feel like something's getting done while you wait.
I love the moment the video starts, my eyes go directly to lego island. You need to review that.
Definetely one of the coolest channels on the youtube!
"i hope you don't mind disk loading sounds"
that was honestly the best part of my day, so nostalgic
I love this channel, the nostalgia is awesome :)
I remember seeing these at Electronics Boutique back in the 80s, for the C64/128. I didn't know they released them for the PC as well.
Would you do a GEOS review? That's an interesting bit of computer history.
Perhaps, I'm not really too keen on covering operating systems though.
Lazy Game Reviews Not too keen, eh? I guess you won't be *commanding* any attention for those kinds of videos. HEPH HEPH HEPH HEPH.
oh wait did I do that right?
MarmaladeJacket LOL I see what you did there! Good reference!
The Icontroller for the C64 was great.
I used one frequently.
I love ❤️ Floppy Disk 💾 Noises!!!
Grrrrr-CaChunk-Bzzzzt-TikkTikkTikk!!!
That sounds like something a Pokemon trainer would say before the battle. "Trainer Zane would like to battle!"
💾
Damn they almost got Apple's future iEverything trademark if they would have just changed the capitalization and said iController.
Ahh the good old days, I remember strolling into Egghead computer and checking out the games and accessories. That's where I bought my very first sound card and CD-ROM! a Creative Technology Soundblaster-16 and 2X CD-ROM. I also purchased my first modem there too, a AT&T internal 14.4 (when most people were using external modems) later I got external modems when people were switching to internal, oh well! I've never been a trend follower.
i just died laughing when the "Oh FRIGGIN COPY PROTECTION!!" part came up. lol that was so unexpected and hilarious. lol reminds me of me. lol
Copy protection: still bothering gamers decades later.
thats the sad part. im not really a classic pc gamer unless i find what im looking for on Steam, but ur videos really take me back. I love your channel. im not so much into videogames as much, but now more into graphics/animation and writing, and creating my 1st board game.
Sam Mitman 11:47
I mean, it's EA. I wasn't even surprised.
This is so rad. I had some of these controllers back in the day for my ZX Spectrum but I think they were unlicensed bootlegs or euro variants since they were released under other companies names.
THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT ODD DEVICES THAT I KNEW EXISTED AND THE PRICES ARE USUALLY VERY OUTRAGEOUS FOR THE LITTLE YOU GET, WHAT ODD THINGS, VERY COOL THAT YOU FIND ALL OF THOSE VERY INTERESTING ODD ITEMS AND SHOW THEM WORKING EXPLAIN IN DETAIL ABOUT THE ITEMS
Man.... them disc loading sounds. It's kinda soothing, very nostalgic...
imagine using this for competitive csgo
vs. globals
AbandonedProgram I'd just use it for doing stuff, it seems pretty funny.
Map it for weapon and item switching and using. Lol
Whatculture or Gameranx man, these channels need a music composer to score these great channels. LGR and the above mentioned, Thank You for your videos!! We love em!🔥💪
back when I had my pentium 1 166mhz as a teenager, I had a small ass desk and there wasn't much room for a standard mouse. so I chose a trackball. I kinda miss it. believe it or not I got really good at playing unreal tournament 1 with that trackball lol
+SerialVapist Trackballs rocked!
And trackballs can be very precise. Nice in photography, but not as quick for gaming.
I thought it was Icon Trolling device...
Oddware is my favourite thing about this channel!
This worked really well in 3.11a as a mouse in situations with little/no mouse space, in lieu of a trackball there was not much else out there that was any good. Suncom started as a maker of controllers for 8-bit C-64 and Atari 400/800 line. They had a small joystick I can't recall the name of, but it was massively durable.
Still loving the channel and greetings :)
Great work Clint
I remember seeing ads for the Commodore version of this! Always thought it was cute. As for Flight Simulator, I definitely remember being able to fly it with the mouse, there was some button or key to toggle the mouse between pointing and flying.
The noise that makes when it's reading from floppy.... I missed that so much. That's something you will never experience by emulation.
I absolutely love these videos. Nothing calms me like experimental 90s tech and people spouting specs I know nothing about.
"It consisted of four rendering pipelines, with hardware T&L, and some limited pixel shader support. Innovatively the chip has 3 MiB of embedded 1T-SRAM for use as ultra-fast low-latency (6.2 ns) texture and framebuffer/Z-buffer storage allowing 10.4 GB/second bandwidth (extremely fast for the time)."
Aahhh...
Oh man I love these videos, and seeing that TAC-2 made me all warm and fuzzy inside; I loved that joystick. Sure it wasn't comfortable at all, but somehow I just loved it. And it was better than the Atari 2600-joystick I was used to before.
Man! you got a new room or something with more space?
That T-Shirt so epic
I love this mouse. It's one of the most complicated ones I've seen. Knobs, switches, buttons, love it, haha. Good old days...
The RS232 serial port was not IBM specific, it was its own standard. We use RS232C ports on industrial control computers to this day. DCEs (like the MDS 97/9810 series of data radios) use a DB25 serial connector, I don't know why DTEs generally use a DB9 and DCEs seem to lean DB25. It's getting harder to connect to them with PCs, as the standard PC serial port has been phased out and USB to serial devices vary wildly in quality. I freaking love your videos, bee tee dubs.
Those painful sounding disk loading sounds take me right back to my childhood.
I believe the switch on the top assigns the button to the stick function button. In position 1 it sets the button to button 1, position 2 sets the button to button 2 and so on and so forth.
Top button on stick is a mouse button. The three mode selector front of the stick is a selector that is that button a left, middle or right mouse button.
I enjoy the disk loading sounds, and that controller is way smaller than I expected
I love the sound of a working floppy disc drive...
Just noticed you had a copy of lego island. Would make my life if you could review it maybe!
Disk loading sounds are therapeutic.
Disk error sounds on the other hand... I'm still recovering from when I lost important assignments and personal files on floppies!!!!! >_
"Stuff like electric shavers and...whatever else"
That cracked me up, since I was watching this video on one of two philips monitors that sit on my desk xD
Love your sense of humor, Clint!
"Speed-indicator-selector-thingy" wow, such a professional.
Suncom also made the VERY nice F-15E Talon & SFS Throttle back in the day.
Having to watch this through Google in order to get sound for this video.
I need that shirt. Like, it's becoming my purpose in life. Lazy Game Reviews
Holy crap I haven't seen one of these in years. My dad used one of these things daily. That company had great Joysticks tho !
We had the original C64 version of this, which attached to the side of one's C64 with a "poster square" adhesive. It was the most compact C64 joystick available, and made a more-than-adequate substitute for the mice that other computer systems seemed to require. (I remember liking it a lot better than the 1-button Amiga mouse, at least.) I think I remember the TAC 20 joystick also; we got one for our first PC because the local computer store at the time didn't have an MS-DOS version of the Icontroller.
I had one of these on my 386 laptop back in the '90s. It was really great in a time before touchpads.
Actual practical use in context of the time period notwithstanding, I found it amusing that the back of the box has the word "Why" in bold letters.
Disc loading, brings me right back to my childhood :'D
That TAC2 stick is a gorgeous gorgeous thing.
The way said funky device is held is ironically like a claw mouse, you rest your index finger lightly on the stick using your side thumb to press the three buttons on the bottom. I know this because a long long time ago our school mac had one of these devices attached to it, and it was used for drawing applications and various other crap and like. LGR like most of the students back then had no idea how to use it.
I understood it right away by its shape (blame certin arcade games where you rest your hand in a similar manner) you were suppose to grip the sides like a claw mouse of today though few noticed it and it was kinda tiny, it needed to be lengthened a few cm's. Its actually pretty useful at times.
I've seen my fair share of LGR videos, and I think this is the first time I've ever seen Clint genuinely get pissed off
FWIW, I had one of these back in the day... it worked much better not attached to the keyboard. A couple things he missed (or just didn't understand): the button on the joystick was a normal mouse button... Which button? well, that's what the selector at the top was for! Most of the time, you leave the selector to 1 for a left-click. The "System Selector" switch on the "front" would have been for Microsoft Mouse mode (3 button) or PC Mouse mode (2 button).
I had the Commodore 64 version of this, and loved it, the one button layout worked out better using the bottom of your thumb while playing a game. I got so used to this normal Joysticks felt weird when I would use them.
The Sunrise Calendar app icon and Sumcom's logo look almost identical. Neat coincidence!
Wow, at the beginning I thought that it looked kinda huge, so I really was suprised to see how small it actually is :o
Love the doily on the back of your chair.