🚀 go-pugleaf

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Being a long time Descent keyboard player, and having heard so many good 
things about joysticks, I decided to go out and get one. The one I 
purchased was the F-15E Eagle because it appeared to have the most 
features and was the best built one that I could find. (The Sidewinder 
pro seemed a bit flimsy) 

When I first plugged it in and fired up Descent, I was a little bit 
disappointed... naturally I used it as is for rotation, while 
maintaining my dedicatted strafing keys on the keyboard. At first I 
couldn't really see any advantage to it because it was reacting just like 
the arrow keys, but after a few hours of using it I found that even the 
most suttle movements were picked up and that I could be a little more 
'creative' with my flying. The one big advantage being that you can 
decide to turn at the rate you want at, unlike the arrows key which start 
you rotating at full speed. (Experienced keyboard players know that you 
can tap the keys a couple times to align your target, thereby rotating 
more 'slowly'...) For me the keyboard is still a bit more accurate then 
the joystick, i.e. I can get myself pointed somewhere faster, but I think 
that with practice the joystick solution will be much better. It's also 
real nice to have the afterburner (rear button), missle button (top left)
and missle toggle (middle left) buttons all under my fingertips. In 
effect I've now have a few extra options available to me now that a few 
fingers are freed from the arrow keys, my hand takes care of that now.

I set the castle-down to flare, castle-left to 'forward' (which I don't use)
and the up and right to some function key macros... the hat switch is 
configured for strafing but I don't use that, it's junk. You can only 
strafe in one direction at a time, and besides it would require another 
finger :)  I use the keyboard for strafing (w-a-s-d) and f-v for forward 
reverse.

I'd be interesting in hearing how others have their system configured.
Also, I'd like to hear from those who have used the SpaceAvenger2000(sp?)
I have experience with using Spaceballs in VR experiences (Sense8 WTK, 
Logitech Magellan) I'm just curious how well it works with Descent.

Hey Parallax, any chance of adding Magellan support? That would be real 
nifty, it's a great serial input device.
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