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I tried it last night, as I said. And my joystick isn't USB, it's a serial one that plugs into the sound card.
Oddly enough, the joystick is the only computer component I haven't ever had to replace. Ever. This thing's like circa 1987 or something. Originally had it plugged into 386SX-16. And it still works great today - except for TIE Fighter, anyway.
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Your phrasing was ambiguous as to when you tried DOSBox, which is why I asked. If it's a serial joystick, I really don't know why it doesn't work. I really thought USB was the problem with old games and joysticks, not Windows itself...
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Plugging your joystick into the USB port could lead to problems....yeah.
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I don't know why it's not working either, but it might be related to the sound card not working with TIE Fighter. Oh well. Can someone direct me to a good recent space fighter sim?
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"I have also since discovered that there are two different versions of the tie fighter collector's edition cd."
Erh, no. LucasArts released TFCCD for the PC in '95 and two years later for the Mac, but there were never separate versions for DOS and Windows. You could just play the PC edition in both.
"it might be related to the sound card not working ..."
Well, obviously, if TIE Fighter won't detect the soundcard, then it won't detect any joystick input data being piped through it either, so...
(Irony, yet strange solacement: trying to run the game in Win95 then was even MORE troublesome than getting it to put up with Win2000 now, I daresay.)
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Freespace 2. Uber-good graphics. Not much characterization, but the flight sim itself can't be beat. Or if you're in the mood for uber-customizable open source stuff, check out Vegastrike. They have a nice clone of Wing Commander Privateer right now, and I'm working on incorporating it into a clone of WC Armada. It's partially done, should be ready in a couple months.
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: Jason: Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?
B.J.
Only if you use the word "joystick" in an new introduction.
On the positive side, I've gotten over your name...
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Well in ROTJ when those fighters destroyed the dome on top of the Executor the officer clearly states after the fact "Sir, we've lost our bridge deflector shield" so those domes on top of the Star Destroyer are shield generators.
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Or the attack and ensuing collateral explosions caused a power disruption that collapsed the bridge's deflector shield.
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Um, I said...
quote:Did it impact because they took out the bridge and navigation was thrown off?
It's been a while since I've seen the movie and I didn't remember if the one that got up close and personal with the A-Wing was the one that nose-dived.
Unless there was another Super Star Destroyer hiding for the entire duration of the movie, then no.
And, actually, no anyway, since I've just remembered that Admiral Piet is on the bridge, so it has to be the Executor.
Didn't the X-Wing Collector's Edition set contain Win 95 versions of X-Wing and TIE-Fighter, both of which used the XW vs TF graphics engine (and replaced the midi music with film score. Which was nice if you had a rubbish sound card, but I had a Yamaha XG and TIE fighter sounded like oh cool wowo man.)
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