Favourite Joystick from good old days.

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I'm wondering why there are no proper joysticks available for IBM-PC?

When I look in the shops all they have are these crap analogue sticks which just flop around, they have a ridiculous amount of "travel", they don't centre themselves when you let go of the stick, they don't have microswitches, you can hardly tell what direction it is in, they need calibration, etc. Such joysticks are completely useless, so I don't know why they bother to make them, or why anyone would buy one. They're as bad as a gamepad.

Surely there is a company that makes 8-way IBM-PC joysticks!?

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Hmmm, $US100 for a joystick!? That would be nearly $A200 when exchange rates, delivery etc. is included.

Maybe I should get one of those Competition Pro adapters, they cost only about half as much, and I could use my trusty Multicoin Starcursor which would be a better stick than what they are selling...

Thanks for the link though.