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.
That "Mk.I" FCS on that guy's page is still one gen after the one I have. The one he shows has a plastic base, and "weak springs" (since the Mk.II had stiffer springs). The ORIGINAL TM product had a heavy metal base, stiff springs, but no rubber boot around the base of the stick. I can't find any images of it online. Maybe I'll take some of mine if I remember.
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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.
That "Mk.I" FCS on that guy's page is still one gen after the one I have. The one he shows has a plastic base, and "weak springs" (since the Mk.II had stiffer springs). The ORIGINAL TM product had a heavy metal base, stiff springs, but no rubber boot around the base of the stick. I can't find any images of it online. Maybe I'll take some of mine if I remember.
The FCS Pro http://thrustmaster.vanree.net/fcspro.html is very similar to what I have, except mine didn't come with the rubber dust boot around the base of the stick.