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TSW Formula '99 - Review

8 posts by 5 people · 16 Feb 1999 - 17 Feb 1999

just finalized a review of the top notch "TSW Formula '99" racing controller for the Unofficial MGPRS2 website. Check out if you feel like it. http://www.mgprs2.com Kind Regards Greg Hellmann
Tadej Krev 16 Feb 1999#450594
Nice review, nice wheel. But I'll add my $0.02 : - $1050 !! too much IMO, I'm a great sim-fan but I can't imagine myself spening that much on a game controller. - TSW in my opinion is not the best controller on the market, although it's up there. Have you ever heard of ECCI ? Hyperstimulator ? Redline Race controls ? I bet they can stand up to it quite well. - Pots....The only thing that wears out are pots (potentiometers) and not the wheel. I can't see how you would wear out your wheel ? And pots can be replaced quickly with better ones. - for $150 you can get 3 pots of the highest quality that can take more then 2,000,000 revolutions and are very precise (if you want you can go and calculate how long these pots will last) and put them in your wheel . - I wish controller manufacturers would look up to M$'s FF wheel concept of reading the driver's input is by far the best (no jitter -> better control, more confidence). Don't get me wrong, the wheel is probbably very good, but it's price just doesn't cut it and I wouldn't be surprised if there were very little orders for it. I'm afraid that the (authentic?) Momo wheel has the biggest share to it's price (peddals cost only about $50, I know because I've just installed them in my road car). P.S. : I have T2 wheel with PDPI L4 card and I'm extremely happy with it. The only thing that I might be missing is a steel camshaft and maybe paddle shifters... Regards, Tadej Krevh Lotus Internet Racing (http://members.xoom.com/LotusRacing/)
Quoted text (7 lines)> just finalized a review of the top notch "TSW Formula '99" racing controller > for the Unofficial MGPRS2 website. Check out if you feel like it. > http://www.mgprs2.com > Kind Regards > Greg Hellmann
J. Crai 16 Feb 1999#450595
Nice review and enjoy your wheel. I'm looking at purchasing a new wheel in the near future. TSW2 seem to fit my budget. One more thing, change the color of your font on your web site. Reading white lettes on medium blue background is not easy.
Tony 16 Feb 1999#450596
>just finalized a review of the top notch "TSW Formula '99" racing controller >for the Unofficial MGPRS2 website. Check out if you feel like it. >http://www.mgprs2.com >Kind Regards >Greg Hellmann Hmmmmmmm, $1050.00 seems like a lot, considering you can get a Hymperstimulator for that. TB
Damn....maybe I'll pay that much when it has optical sensors and USB support. Otherwise, and especially considering, the next version of the PC specs are killing off the gameport. ISA bus is dead in PC99 so all those ISA gamecards won't be useful very soon either.
Tadej, thank you for the input. I cannot infer from your reply what pots you are talking though. Thomas Enterprises offer three high grade spectrol 50K pots for $ 65 seperately. Let me know if you're willing to share some more data on yours.... Regards Greg
Tadej Krev 17 Feb 1999#450865
I know of a guy (Asgeir Nesoen) that put those into his wheel. They're 20k pots and very precise, durable and expensive ! :o) Tadej Krevh // I'll ask Asgeir and let you know or maybe he can tell us all here is he reads this mail :)
Quoted text (10 lines)> Tadej, > thank you for the input. > I cannot infer from your reply what pots you are talking though. > Thomas Enterprises offer three high grade spectrol 50K pots for $ 65 > seperately. > Let me know if you're willing to share some more data on yours.... > Regards > Greg

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