Recommend a joystick to play X-Wing Collectors Edition...?

Look for a Microsoft Sidewinder Pro, the old ones came with either the game / midi port plug or I am sure I had a USB version, this will have been USB 1.0

The nine pin plug on your laptop will almost certainly be a serial port and I cannot remeber any joysticks that worked on that type of port. There used to be available "game cards" for laptops but they are all long gone now.

The software that came with it was very light and I played through the very games you mention.

You may have trouble with USB on Win98 though so make sure you download and install the USB support pack. If memory serves, it is also on the Win98 disk somewhere.

Best bet is to quit to dos and play them there if possible, but then forget Sidewinders and USB etc.

Nice to see that great games like these live on :-)

You'll need to check with the main brands for that time period for best support. At that time you had the MS Sidewinder and Saitek have had a good rep for joysticks. Although at the moment pretty much all joysticks are USB so you'll need to find a second hand or old stick somewhere that still uses the old MIDI serial port.

For X-wing I used my Saitek SP550, which worked fine.

Just remember that you can use USB2.0 joysticks on 1.0 plugs, just they'll run at the slower 1.0 speed, which is about 1.5MB/s

You will need a joystick or gamepad that plug in the serial port on your soundcard in order to play older games. Your best bet is Ebay or search the net. Logitech and Creative lab use to makes them. There may be some company outside the US like Taiwan or China that still making those. If you couldn't get any, your next choice is to buy a PCI addon card that has usb port and use that with a joystick/gamepad. Get a real simple one.

Un buen joystick hace que disfrutes mas con el juego y con los joystick comprados de sitios web seguramente los vas a hacer, había comprado un par de veces joysticks de sitios web porque son un regalo perfecto para los niños más grande pero el ultimo que he comprado ha sido para mi marido porque ha encontrado un juego que le gusta mucho, el envió ha llegado a tiempo y el joystick es una pasada, fácil de instalar y no ocupa mucho lugar, los dos estamos muy encantados con la compra.

the microsoft joystick is great (sidewinder 3d pro)

I use(d) it on x-wing vs tie fighter on my old com. it has the throttle and all and is very solid.

it has serial connection for com 2

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