rec.autos.simulators

The wheel is from ACT Labs and is called the FORCE RS. All force feedback
companies are faced with a lawsuit by ATARI over the force feedback
technology used in wheels so right now they are dealing with the lawsuit.
Until the lawsuit is resolved we will see now force feedback wheels on the
market. As soon as it is resolved expect to see a ton of wheels hit the
market!

Thanks
John

A few months back, there was talk about a $99 force feedback wheel --
darn, I can't remember the vendor name ...

But RAS was abuzz with threads on this subject...  does anyone know if
this product acutally came out?  Any reviews?  Anyone got one?

Thanks...
Doug

p.s.  What was the name of it?

Thanks!

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I havent heard the name Atari in ages... last I saw was the jaguar
system and their stock price of about $4.00 a share ;)  I wasnt even
sure they were still in the "game".

Scott B. Husted
http://home.ptd.net/~sbhusted

Well, I think they pretty much soured on the home market after the
Lynx and Jaguar failed.
They were actually both pretty good machines hurt by poor marketing in
my opinion.

I'm not real big on the arcade scene, but I think Atari is still a
presence there. Isn't the San Francisco Rush driving game by Atari?
Thats a pretty cutting edge game.
Hard Drivin', which I mentioned, is an arcade game with force
feedback. That's the one I'm thinking is the basis for the suit.

I also heard a while back that Atari was going to make actual driving
simulators for schools based on the Hard Drivin' game.
I don't know if they were ever produced or not, though.

I thought they had a Chuckie Cheese affiliation through Nolan Bushnell
too, but I'm not real sure.

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Man, I almost went out and bought an Atari Jaguar when it came out.
It never got much 3rd party support, and they didn't make many games
for it. Then, the Saturn and PSX came out, and the Jaguar was history.
Pretty glad I didn't get one. Oh well, back to the 'ol Sega Genesis
<g>.
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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 19:08:26 GMT, "Scott B. Husted"

There was rumour of an Atari law suit, I tried getting a response from them
but as yet no luck.  Interestingly, if the suite is in regard to Force
feedback (which is just plain stupid) then why hasn't the non-Force RS been
released?

It was to be out by Christmas, however it isn't.  If you look at their web
site you will see 'Coming Soon' under the online store.  But if you go to
Immersive Inc (the company responsible for the force feedback side of the
Force RS) then you will see a date of January 1998.

kane

Apols read that as early 98

I bought an Amiga CD32; all the games were just straight ports from
Amiga 1200 ones, but still it was an exciting machine to own when it
first came out. Sank pretty quick though!

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