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    From Pr. Mandrake@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 23 20:51:42 2023
    I ordered a joystick off of one of those internet warehouses. It worked
    well for Doom, Quake and a couple others. I let it sit for about a month
    then took it out again and the calibration was askew. There was a
    permanent pull to the right.

    That's what I get for ordering some random Chinese branded joystick.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Pr. Mandrake on Fri Mar 24 09:52:17 2023
    On 24/03/2023 03:51, Pr. Mandrake wrote:
    I ordered a joystick off of one of those internet warehouses. It worked
    well for Doom, Quake and a couple others. I let it sit for about a month then took it out again and the calibration was askew. There was a
    permanent pull to the right.

    That's what I get for ordering some random Chinese branded joystick.

    I just avoid stuff like that as you just know it's going to be some
    other that's been ripped off and then built to a sub-quality standard.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Mar 24 11:05:29 2023
    On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:52:17 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

    On 24/03/2023 03:51, Pr. Mandrake wrote:
    I ordered a joystick off of one of those internet warehouses. It worked
    well for Doom, Quake and a couple others. I let it sit for about a month
    then took it out again and the calibration was askew. There was a
    permanent pull to the right.

    That's what I get for ordering some random Chinese branded joystick.


    Meanwhile, my twenty-five year old Sidewinder 3D joystick* from
    Microsoft remains perfectly calibrated.

    I mean, aren't most modern joysticks digitally calibrated anyway? I
    haven't recalibrated a stick in a dog's age.





    * reason #3 for my recent rebuild of my Windows98 machine; I wanted a
    computer with an old-school gameport that I could use with that
    'stick.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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