rec.autos.simulators

>>>I plug in the joystick for a few rounds of DOA3.  It just does it.

> Try printing out your resume on an X-box.  Try faxing from your X-box.  Try
> cropping digital photos on your X-box.  Try any one of a billion things that
> computers do, besides games.  Due to the complexity, the computer will never
> be a perfect solution for ***.  But along with some disadvantages for
> *** (lack of consistent hardware) all the incredible flexibility that a
> computer has also gives it several advantages over a console, yes even for
> ***.  I'm into flight sims, and I use a Thrustmaster Cougar and CH
> Pro rudder pedals.  Try plugging those items into your X-box and custom
> programming your preferred buttons.

>>>> I plug in the joystick for a few rounds of DOA3.  It just does it.

>> Try printing out your resume on an X-box.  Try faxing from your
>> X-box.  Try cropping digital photos on your X-box.  Try any one of a
>> billion things that computers do, besides games.  Due to the
>> complexity, the computer will never be a perfect solution for
>> ***.  But along with some disadvantages for *** (lack of
>> consistent hardware) all the incredible flexibility that a computer
>> has also gives it several advantages over a console, yes even for
>> ***.  I'm into flight sims, and I use a Thrustmaster Cougar and
>> CH Pro rudder pedals.  Try plugging those items into your X-box and
>> custom programming your preferred buttons.

> I've got a CH Products flightstick working on the Xbox, and it's
> custom programmable to boot.  I use the Innovation X-connection and
> the CH Products Gamestick for the PSX, which works just fine.  I can
> run that stick on the PSX, DC, PS2, Saturn and Xbox.  It's possible
> to get flexibility in console controllers if you're savvy.

> The PC is a general purpose machine.  That's what it's for, and
> that's what it does.  Games are special purpose apps which do benefit
> from special equipment.  A keyboard and mouse were never meant to
> take the punishment of a *** session, and they often don't fare
> well as a result.  PC's weren't ever designed for games, and they've
> never done exceptionally well at them unless there is a bunch of
> special-purpose widgets thrown into it which cost as much (or more)
> than a console would in the first place.

>>>> I plug in the joystick for a few rounds of DOA3.  It just does it.

>> Try printing out your resume on an X-box.  Try faxing from your
>> X-box.  Try cropping digital photos on your X-box.  Try any one of a
>> billion things that computers do, besides games.  Due to the
>> complexity, the computer will never be a perfect solution for
>> ***.  But along with some disadvantages for *** (lack of
>> consistent hardware) all the incredible flexibility that a computer
>> has also gives it several advantages over a console, yes even for
>> ***.  I'm into flight sims, and I use a Thrustmaster Cougar and
>> CH Pro rudder pedals.  Try plugging those items into your X-box and
>> custom programming your preferred buttons.

> I've got a CH Products flightstick working on the Xbox, and it's
> custom programmable to boot.  I use the Innovation X-connection and
> the CH Products Gamestick for the PSX, which works just fine.  I can
> run that stick on the PSX, DC, PS2, Saturn and Xbox.  It's possible
> to get flexibility in console controllers if you're savvy.

> The PC is a general purpose machine.  That's what it's for, and
> that's what it does.  Games are special purpose apps which do benefit
> from special equipment.  A keyboard and mouse were never meant to
> take the punishment of a *** session, and they often don't fare
> well as a result.  PC's weren't ever designed for games, and they've
> never done exceptionally well at them unless there is a bunch of
> special-purpose widgets thrown into it which cost as much (or more)
> than a console would in the first place.

>>>> I plug in the joystick for a few rounds of DOA3.  It just does it.

>> Try printing out your resume on an X-box.  Try faxing from your
>> X-box.  Try cropping digital photos on your X-box.  Try any one of a
>> billion things that computers do, besides games.  Due to the
>> complexity, the computer will never be a perfect solution for
>> ***.  But along with some disadvantages for *** (lack of
>> consistent hardware) all the incredible flexibility that a computer
>> has also gives it several advantages over a console, yes even for
>> ***.  I'm into flight sims, and I use a Thrustmaster Cougar and
>> CH Pro rudder pedals.  Try plugging those items into your X-box and
>> custom programming your preferred buttons.

> I've got a CH Products flightstick working on the Xbox, and it's
> custom programmable to boot.  I use the Innovation X-connection and
> the CH Products Gamestick for the PSX, which works just fine.  I can
> run that stick on the PSX, DC, PS2, Saturn and Xbox.  It's possible
> to get flexibility in console controllers if you're savvy.

> The PC is a general purpose machine.  That's what it's for, and
> that's what it does.  Games are special purpose apps which do benefit
> from special equipment.  A keyboard and mouse were never meant to
> take the punishment of a *** session, and they often don't fare
> well as a result.  PC's weren't ever designed for games, and they've
> never done exceptionally well at them unless there is a bunch of
> special-purpose widgets thrown into it which cost as much (or more)
> than a console would in the first place.

>>>> I plug in the joystick for a few rounds of DOA3.  It just does it.

>> Try printing out your resume on an X-box.  Try faxing from your
>> X-box.  Try cropping digital photos on your X-box.  Try any one of a
>> billion things that computers do, besides games.  Due to the
>> complexity, the computer will never be a perfect solution for
>> ***.  But along with some disadvantages for *** (lack of
>> consistent hardware) all the incredible flexibility that a computer
>> has also gives it several advantages over a console, yes even for
>> ***.  I'm into flight sims, and I use a Thrustmaster Cougar and
>> CH Pro rudder pedals.  Try plugging those items into your X-box and
>> custom programming your preferred buttons.

> I've got a CH Products flightstick working on the Xbox, and it's
> custom programmable to boot.  I use the Innovation X-connection and
> the CH Products Gamestick for the PSX, which works just fine.  I can
> run that stick on the PSX, DC, PS2, Saturn and Xbox.  It's possible
> to get flexibility in console controllers if you're savvy.

> The PC is a general purpose machine.  That's what it's for, and
> that's what it does.  Games are special purpose apps which do benefit
> from special equipment.  A keyboard and mouse were never meant to
> take the punishment of a *** session, and they often don't fare
> well as a result.  PC's weren't ever designed for games, and they've
> never done exceptionally well at them unless there is a bunch of
> special-purpose widgets thrown into it which cost as much (or more)
> than a console would in the first place.

> Sorry for the mulitple posts, don't know what happened there.

>>Dang,

>>Sorry for the mulitple posts, don't know what happened there.

> > Well.............. you know, damn complicated PCs.

> I think that was the "more depth" that he was talking about.

> PC gamers are simpletons.  Go into a video game store, and
> look at who's still being sold games with the biggest, silliest,
> most outlandish boxes.  The box for "Return to Wolfenstein"
> could have housed a family of four.  Homeless people dig them
> out of dumpsters to make ***iniums out of.  The Air Force
> wants them to dump on Iraq to scare the heck out of Saddam
> Hussein with.  NASA is looking at them as cheap disposable
> launch pads for the Space Shuttle missions.  They're HUGE!
> The only other form of entertaiment left coming in boxes
> anywhere near that size are *** videotapes, so there you go.
> That's the mentality of people who think that bigger=better.

> >>Dang,

> >>Sorry for the mulitple posts, don't know what happened there.

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