The 1992 Mouse Yoke! Convert a mouse into a flight yoke, oddly
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Checking out the odd Mouse Yoke from 1992! Colorado Spectrum sold several flight simulator adjacent devices in the 90s but this is the weird one of the bunch. Clamp the base to a desk, strap in a computer mouse, slide in the shaft, and enjoy a realistic aircraft yoke! Possibly, in theory, sort of! A bizarre thing that is prime LGR Oddware indeed.
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00:00 An Oddware Introduction
00:32 The Mouse Yoke
02:41 Colorado Spectrum
04:02 Critical response
05:20 Unboxing the weirdness
09:19 Setup and testing
11:16 LHX Attack Chopper
14:54 Flight Simulator 98
16:55 Doom II
17:58 Unreal Tournament
18:59 Stunts
20:43 Optical Descent test
21:25 What it says on the tin!
#LGR #retro #gaming #controller #oddware - Наука та технологія
"Yeah, I know my shaft length."
**spittake**
hearing clint slip one of those into a video is like watching a kid's cartoon and hearing one of those obviously meant for adult jokes lol
@@ToxicKlay This video was just chock full of innuendo and double entendre!
@@ToxicKlay Yeah like Animaniacs.
"Give me the bird!"
"We would but the censors won't allow it."
Yakko: Good night, Everybody! *blows a kiss*
i miss when youtube was mostly swearing and dick jokes ;) those were the days
I am screaming over the quick identification of the “ten-inch shaft” 😳😳😳😳😳
Clint is a size queen
I mean it's a plausible guess that it is a round number of inches, but still impressive.
@@cannot-handle-handles it was definitely a successful perception check for sure
Clint knows his shaft length
"I know my shaft length."
Not to be confused with the *Mouse YOLK*, the egg-themed mouse that has inevitably been covered in a previous 'weird mouse' video
No, that would be the yolk mouse. This is the mouse yoke.
Was that just for the "Dizzy" games?
Homer: Mmmmm egg yolk *starts drewling*
I had one called "The Three Minute Mouse" Chefs will get that.
also not to be confused with the 'Mouse Joke"
Getting glimpse into the storage room is always a delight.
Damn! First time I've seen it. I'll have to see if he's ever done a video tour, all I've seen are his Big Box game shelves.
@@StreetPreacherrIt's occasionally popped up in quick snippets in his regular videos since moving into this house a few years ago, but he's never done a more in-depth tour of this setup as far as I'm aware. I seem to recall a video showcasing select examples of his collection back from around the time he was moving, though.
We need a tour!
It’s like delving into a vintage computer wonderland!
YES! I want to see the storage room. I love it and it so inspiring to get me to organize my computer room mess lol😅
LGR is one of those channels where you don't expect the innuendos, but when it does, it's executed perfectly 😂
_This is not exactly centered down here_
8:04 😅
"talk about driving the demons back to hell"
i lost it at that comment
I was eating at that exact moment, and I nearly shared my food with the monitor of my pc.
17:32 for others' convenience
This has got to be some kind of yoke
5 seconds is a yoke
@@LuminalSpoononly if you don't know how to handle your shaft.
@@LuminalSpoonhey man, it’s not easy having a 10 Inch Shaft
It's a total yoke, if you ask me.
Egg-cellent!
6:04 lmao at the reverb
I lost it when that happened
I had to go back and play it again just to make sure I heard right...
@@thegeforce6625I hope you find it again.
😂 laughed way too much at this bit! 😂😂
Naughty
This is horribly good. They could have gone even further giving you foot pedals that mashed a keyboard under your desk. And MARVELOUS job on the basement , amazing.
In a similar vein, have a plate on sprung feet with an adjustable limit, set it over the keyboard, maybe have a pattern of holes through which you can add a screw directly over the desired keys
16:15: As Mentour Pilot would say, "This is where things started happening really quickly."
Haha, I could hear it when I read it, hell, I can even see his face :D
7:15 ‘offer good from June, 1 1993 to November 30, 1992’
Nice, using this device you could also get the time flowing backwards!
I had to replay that part a few times, haha
It’s backwards compatible 😜
I love how the crab ended up becoming the LGR mascot
LTT too.
@@basshead. When did they start using that crab? I don't really watch them
@@volvo09 When they test speakers.
"I know my shaft length"
And a bit later: "Dirty shafts and balls." 8:00
You guys know in the Matrix, when neo is like "I need guns" and a vast armory appears filled with shelves of guns?
Yea thats what LGR just did when he went to his basement but instead it was filled with old PC equipment.
2:41 My jaw is on the floor. I grew up in Fort Collins. I lived there for 30 years. Around 1995, I got my braces literally next door to that address on Whalers Way, and my dad lived for years on Sandy Cove Ln, literally 100s of feet away!!! ...I kinda fancy myself a flight sim enthusiast, but haven't heard of Colorado Spectrum until today...feels surreal.
Looked up the address and was shocked to see it was the same building I got teeth pulled at a few years ago. What a small world
@@asoftoday101 Small world indeed! I get back to foco once or twice a year...still have family and friends there.
I've lived in FC since 2002, even work very near there
I'm gonna preface this by saying that is most definitely a compliment.
I often go to sleep watching your videos because it feels like I'm spending the weekend at my uncle's house and he's showing me what he's interested in because I'm also a little into it, and while I wanna learn as much as I can, I can't help but be so comforted by the passion for the interest that I get sleepy.
Sure you can put a yoke on a mouse, but it's not going to be able to pull very much.
A few cheese wedges at most
Thank you for respecting those with food allergies and using egg-free jazz for the intro.
Vegan jazz is best for inclusiveness.
@@ScooterinABWhat about people that don't eat vegetables?
When I was a 14, 15 in 1991 I had a scout master who was a engineer at HP in Fort Collins and he used to bring us over to his office were they had developed a 3D racing game just to put their workstation processors to the test. We were allowed play this game on their top of the line, for the time, workstations the engineers used. Also unbeknownst to us we were also the beta testers for this product developed by former HP engineers who were getting ready to go to market.
Some spacers (and a stop on the far end of the shaft) and some wireless buttons and this seems like a potentially pretty cool solution
Something like a bike brake cable connecting the yolk to something that can press your mouse buttons would probably work.
Maybe foot pedals on string to press the mouse button, and a mousepad-like fabric sleeve on the rod to improve tracking...?
While we're at it, we could remove the mouse and replace it with some potentiometers.
The end spacer could also limit the rotation, not that it would do anything for the centering.
@@mechadeka Now, now, let's not be hasty with the practical suggestions.
Those 3D printed Duke busts in the background look awesome.
15:37 Holy shit, it's Laszlo!
I never knew you were a What We Do in the Shadows enjoyer HAHAH
hitting pause a few seconds in because i just wanted to say thank you so much for adding captions when you upload--it makes the experience so much better than autocraptions. your effort is appreciated! okay, back to the video!
"newwww yaaahk cityyy..." are you a jackie daytona fan, clint? 😂
What a coincidence! I was just reminiscing about his very thing! It worked like a champ when it worked.
Our time with it ended when the turn wheel on the desk clamp broke off. No amount of super glue withstood the torque needed to fix it.
I still have the plastic yoke bars. Thanks so much for covering this one, Clint!
Gotta love a dude who knows his shaft length.
Those LHX sounds bring back some memories of 486dx greatness
As for the centering problem, I noticed the "recommended setup" tables prominently mentioning setting "Mouse Center". I think they chose Numpad 5 for that. So they definitely were aware of centering problems themselves. But yeah, with this yoke, you'd be slapping that button all the time. Great review as always. Keep it up.
Clint just jamming that shaft into the base of the unit...
When the airplane needs extra thrust.
...repeatedly
Isn't that what they use in a Tesla?
I love the Matt Berry reference at about 16 minutes
when you talked about going to see how the mouse infestation in your basement, I was really hoping the one you'd pick would be in a mouse trap, haha.
Getting some matte texture on the shaft (har~) might make it work pretty well with an optical mouse, but you'd likely still run into centering issues. Mice in general aren't very good at that, after all.
I loved the little double-sided-tape-on-the-numpad-joystick thing, I always wanted one but never had one when it would've been relevant.
This thing? I would've lost my shit for if I'd known about it back in the day.
I love this channel. There is no limit to the odd-ness of 90's PC accessories, so thank you, Clint!
So realistic. 😂
I'd love to see some ridiculous PC accessory Tower of Power-type setup. How many weird gimmick accessories can you have on one setup?
@ScooterinAB agreed! The true answer is never enough lol
11:05 - "That up and down sensitivity is nuts"
To be fair, lots of games had separate mouse sensitivity values for X and Y.
I love you Clint my man. U made my life so much better the past like 8 years
Clint you are having way too much fun with the innuendos and suggestive sound effects, lol
"SSPS" Dont take that out of context lol
Oh the innuendo and jokes here are killing me, thank you for the laughs!
don't you mean the yokes?
The reverb after the mouse strap FLAP. 6:04. This is the masterful kind of post-production that separates the men from the boys in UA-cam-land (jokes about crowbars are NOT appreciated).
Your storage space looks amazing!
The distinction between a hoarder and a collector must be organization!
"Mouse infestation in the basement" indeed! Nice collection:)
This reminds me of those “mouse for console” devices that people used for the ps3 to try and play the pc ports like it was on pc.
The Cronus. They never worked right.
Now a lot of newer games just come with support for regular mouse & keyboard over USB. Call of Duty & Halo come to mind immediately, and games where you _need_ a good cursor like Cities: Skylines and Jurassic World: Evolution 2 support it, too.
If you're worried about a clamp hurting a surface, just put a piece of wood between the twisty part and the surface you want to protect. The force will be spread across the piece of wood.
I love the fact you have draws full of old mice.
On the hitting your hand on the desk issue. I guess you could add a couple of rubber washer to make a bump stop
4:38 Holy WordArt, Batman!
As a flight sim developer I find videos like this fascinating, really interesting to see how things were, compared to now with honeycomb yokes and custom MCPs! ❤ amazing Video Clint!
That slap at 6:04 was hilariously unexpected, I died laughing LOL
You should try sliding rubber O-rings over the back and front end of the shaft to stop it from pulling totally out of the holder and that would help keep it centered. Also get some adhesive glue dots that are strong and stick the mouse in place, centered as well, to stop it from sliding around in the cradle.
Your basement shelf / drawer / shelf game is the utopian dream of horder's the world over.
The difference between a hoarder and a collector is organization. 😅
6:42 "that's a pretty lenghty shaft ... what is that, 10 inches ??" - LGR 2024
When you rummaged through your mice drawer, the IBM mouse gave me serious nostalgia. That was my first ever PC mouse
Me: "Seems like a good idea"
Gets to the part about the centering.
"ooooooh.... nvm"
This reminds me of an attachment for the ps1 controller that turned the d-pad to a stick. It was held on by rubber bands. Worked surprisingly well.
"I know my shaft length" -LGR
6:40 onwards is why I love this channel lol
Also the thounk of the shaft coming out was so satisfying
2:04 - OMG, NOSTALGIA! That grey virtual pilot pro is the yoke I had as a kid! Loved that thing. Had the pedals too
I played MS Flight Simulator 4.0 on a Power Macintosh 6100 using this thing and I really liked it, but using the centering key (I think it was num pad 5) was essential.
Oh FS had centering button, I didn't even know. Actually just commented that this solution definitely needs somekind of centering button solution and if there were actual visual reference to how far you're on in ie. X-axis this kind of solution could work quite well tbh.
@@jothain it has visual indicators on the dashboard as well yeah. I think the centering was only for the roll, but that worked well enough for this device. So well in fact that I landed my cessna on the first try :)
@@mingohagen Cool, then I'd assume learning curve and feel to be good enough for the era. Plus to be honest most joysticks back then weren't great either. Well at least ones I could get my hands.
Num pad 5 is mentioned prominently in the manual when he is leafing through it. I guess Clint ignored it. It gives the mouse recenter key for each compatible game. Seemed like a big tip off keeping center was going to be iffy.
Dang that's actually pretty innovative, if only track ball mice worked better this would have been genius back then!
Somehow I'd completely forgotten about Stunts but even just the very first scene of you playing it brought back all sorts of memories of playing that game for way too much and designing all sorts of crazy tracks.
15:40 is this a what we do in the shadows quote?! My man
"I know my shaft length"
LMAO i love you LGR
Stunts will probably always be my favourite driving game. Wish they'd remake it, simply with up to date graphics and sound but nothing more.
Superbly edited! 🖱
This was delightfully chaotic. Thanks Clint, i needed this today :D
Clint doing the lazlow impression of "NEW YORK CITY" is fun
Love that someone else caught that
He also did a 9/11 reenactment, but that didn't make the cut.
The issue is that with a mouse you're expected to be able to recenter it by lifting it up and placing it back down, and with the yoke you can't do that effectively.
That would be why the manual had a list of “re-centering” hotkeys for various games.
I don't often laugh out loud while alone watching UA-cam video's but the "I know my shaft length" got me.
Professional driver in a closed circuit indeed
Behold professionalism in crashing!
Happy Fri yayyyyyyyyy, Clint!!
Very funny episode, and you're looking good. Thanks, Clint.
I'm impressed the optical mouse worked. Neat video.
I could imagine playing FS with this on the Atari, as it didnt have analogue joystick support (iirc). Far from optimal, but more immersive than pushing the mouse around.
6:50 glad to hear clint
The shaft length bit made me lol. Fun video as always Clint!
I remember having this back in the 90s as a kid! Not perfect, but worked surprisingly well for what it was. This was fun to revisit, thanks Clint
The epic snapping of the elastic 😂
Maybe you could add some sort of ring to the base of the shaft, to restrict the possible travel.
Some kind of… shaft ring, yes. I think I know a store that sells such accessories 🍎
Thanks for showing your basement, it has given me some inspiration for my storage.
As for the yoke, maybe you could use a piece of slightly larger pipe as a spacer for the shaft. Or a bunch of washers.
And maybe one of those black with metal paper stack keeper together things at the end to stop it from coming out?
This is gotta be one of my favorite episodes so far!
All the jokes about balls, rods, and sizes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
7:13 "Offer good from June 1, 1993 to November 30, 1992"... wait what?
I noticed that too! Time works backwards in Colorado?
@@ladyjaye27Gotta be lingering effects from the Stargate.
I love the 80's and 90's. That's a piece of history right there.☺️
It's a piece of garbage lol - just because something was sold at that time doesn't make it good. There's a reason there's not a lot of early 90s GM cars running around today - they,like this thing, were crap.
@@the_kombinator Bro it works better that some joysticks sold _today_
@@fus132 Which ones? Seriously, I'm not up to snuff, I have retro gear all over my house, and I think the newest controller I have is a Gravis Gamepad from 1997.
no need to be oversentimental about something that was a cheap and unreliable junk even when it came out, if it coundn't achieve at least getting centered after a maneuver then it was destined to fail
@@alikos4528 yeah this is junk, like one of those late 80's "driving simulator" toys you'd get as a present that just rolled a 4" tube around with a light bulb inside to project a road on a "screen"... the fun lasted for 2 minutes because it took 30 seconds to realize it was the 10 seconds loop of road.
There was so much worthless trash then, and this is one of them... The problems Clint had today are no different than how bad it would have been back in the day, just unusably bad.
This is quite possibly my favourite LGR video. So much ridiculous fun, innuendos AND a venture into the basement. What's not to love?
It never ceases to amaze me at the ingenuity in the things that Clint manages to find for Oddware. It's definitely odd, but a lot of the time it's also pretty damn clever, too.
10 points to Gryffindor for the Shaft reference.
Ya damn right
I keep reading the title as "Mouse Yokai" and I like that product more
I don't think any computer mouses are old enough to become tsukumogami, unfortunately.
I was gonna suggest trying an optical mouse.. glad to see we think alike in that respect! Still.. yeah.. I get the feeling an optical mouse and the driving wheel, maybe with a band of matte tape on it directly where the laser hits might work? Still though, rather enjoy the absurdity and clever idea of it. Anyway, Clint, please keep finding weird stuff, it's always a treat when your oddware videos pop up in my sub box.
I saw these advertised heavily in Mac magazines of the early 90s. There weren't a whole lot of Apple Desktop Bus yokes, if any. And if there were any, I'm sure they'd be eye-wateringly expensive cuz that's how things went in the 68k days.
I had a Mouse Yoke. It sucked.
I once had a dream where i was hanging out with LGR, but for some reason we were both twelve years old.
Pretty sure i'm going to have at least one dream that happens in that glorious retro-pc paradise down the stairs.
Little did I know how much I needed LGR to talk about rods, shaft, and balls. And now I know how long LGR’s shaft is. Tape measure proven.
RC equipment and controllers so cool brings back memories of using my cousins Futaba and trying out the RC sim he had for RC Helicopter practice , thanks lgr another cool episode. 🙂
This video is 90% shaft and ball jokes, 10% LGR flexing his old mouse collection. Well played.
New Yawk Citeee? I sense a "What We Do in the Shadows" fan.
Also could be a Pace Picante fan
'It's a pretty lengthy shaft' - Clint, 2024
This brings back some memories. I had the Mouse Wheel and remember playing the original F1 Grand Prix Racing game with it. It did work, but took a lot of tweaking. I did see another comment about using stops and such, and I actually did that by getting some rubber washers/O-rings from the hardware store that fit tightly around the shaft. I honestly don't recall if I still have it or if I ended up giving it away/selling it at a computer swap meet back when those were still a thing. I'll have to look in my own basement storage and see if I can find it.
I laughed way too hard at this one. Your humor is on point. It reminds me of Leslie Nielsen
Clint, UA-cam is doing it again, I didn't get notified of your video :|
I can't be the only one either.
I started to make browser tabs for my fav YT channels.
I have a strange urge to play Carmageddon with this thing :D great video!
Loved the Benn Jordan level of sustain/decay on that Mouse band slap
That's a very nice black shaft you have there Mr. Funny Video man.
Can I just say that i freaking love 1990s software box art? Seriously, I should start an online gallery