I still own the *original* Thrustmaster... I don't recall the model... maybe it was called FCS? Anyway it was their first product... modeled after an F-4 Phantom control stick, it had a metal base, but the handle was plastic. The springs inside were/are very tight. It sits in it's box right now, as I don't do flight sims much any more (Falcon 3.0 was the last for me). I bought it in 1992, I believe. I wonder if it would even work with a modern flight sim game? They came out with an almost identical but cheaper version (all plastic, no metal base) for several years, then dropped it for the f-16 style plastic model. I went to their website recently hoping to find some archival information about the original products, but there wasn't any.
I am not sure if it will work with modern games or not, I had the cheap plastic one that you were talking about (called the Topgun) it will work if on gameports on mobo/soundcard, or one of those usb gameport adapter. That being said, my SWF22 (and a few other sticks I tried) wouldn't work on usb gameport adapters, so you may have better luck with the gameport on soundcards, It doesn't really matter on the games actually, as long as windows can see it, it will work in the game.
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I still own the *original* Thrustmaster... I don't recall the model... maybe it was called FCS? Anyway it was their first product... modeled after an F-4 Phantom control stick, it had a metal base, but the handle was plastic. The springs inside were/are very tight. It sits in it's box right now, as I don't do flight sims much any more (Falcon 3.0 was the last for me). I bought it in 1992, I believe. I wonder if it would even work with a modern flight sim game? They came out with an almost identical but cheaper version (all plastic, no metal base) for several years, then dropped it for the f-16 style plastic model. I went to their website recently hoping to find some archival information about the original products, but there wasn't any.
This page got some information on that FCS that you have:
http://www.migman.com/hw/control/tm/tm.htm
I am not sure if it will work with modern games or not, I had the cheap plastic one that you were talking about (called the Topgun) it will work if on gameports on mobo/soundcard, or one of those usb gameport adapter. That being said, my SWF22 (and a few other sticks I tried) wouldn't work on usb gameport adapters, so you may have better luck with the gameport on soundcards, It doesn't really matter on the games actually, as long as windows can see it, it will work in the game.