rec.autos.simulators

>> >> I see the minimum requirements on controls are a wheel and pedals. No
>> >> more joystick drivers

>> > How would the game know if a player has a wheel and
>> > pedals intead of a joystick and throttle / brake?

>>     Let's face it - it's easy to tell the difference between those who
>> play
>> with their joystick and those who don't!

> I'm not so sure. :) Wolfgang Woeger used to use a joystick when
> setting records with GPL. I think he got slower with a wheel.

>>> >> I see the minimum requirements on controls are a wheel and pedals. No
>>> >> more joystick drivers

>>> > How would the game know if a player has a wheel and
>>> > pedals intead of a joystick and throttle / brake?

>>>     Let's face it - it's easy to tell the difference between those who
>>> play
>>> with their joystick and those who don't!

>> I'm not so sure. :) Wolfgang Woeger used to use a joystick when
>> setting records with GPL. I think he got slower with a wheel.

> Indeed, as if memory serves did a fellow with the initials DK.  Had some
> small role in the development of GPL I think; maybe you should ask him!

> Even tried it myself for a bit just to see how it would go.  Used the
> stick with my CH pedals and found you could go really quick since you had
> near-instant lock-to-lock steering response.  But it didn't feel like
> driving a car, so I went back to my good old Wingman Formula wheel.

> Still, only time I ever got through Masta flat was with the stick...  ;-)

> SB

> >>> >> I see the minimum requirements on controls are a wheel and pedals. No
> >>> >> more joystick drivers

> >>> > How would the game know if a player has a wheel and
> >>> > pedals intead of a joystick and throttle / brake?

> >>>     Let's face it - it's easy to tell the difference between those who
> >>> play
> >>> with their joystick and those who don't!

> >> I'm not so sure. :) Wolfgang Woeger used to use a joystick when
> >> setting records with GPL. I think he got slower with a wheel.

> > Indeed, as if memory serves did a fellow with the initials DK.  Had some
> > small role in the development of GPL I think; maybe you should ask him!

> > Even tried it myself for a bit just to see how it would go.  Used the
> > stick with my CH pedals and found you could go really quick since you had
> > near-instant lock-to-lock steering response.  But it didn't feel like
> > driving a car, so I went back to my good old Wingman Formula wheel.

> > Still, only time I ever got through Masta flat was with the stick...  ;-)

> > SB

> --->>near-instant lock-to-lock steering response<<---

> That's the key or nail on the head right there Steve!

> I tried a joystick too - to replace my -at the time, TSW wheel and the first
> thing you could see in GPL was that with the Joystick you just set the steer
> ratio nicely and then when driving just "whack" the stick to full lock at
> corner entry and keep throttle in it.
> The joystick was fast -maybe faster- than a wheel in GPL.

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