Game Controllers... I like sliders!

[yagni01]

yagni01, I am wondering what the name of that TQ is, looks pretty darn cool

Its a Saitek PZ45 Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant.

 

[TheGekko]

Yes I do know a MIDI fader controller, that is *very* inexpensive and even has motorized faders:

The Behringer BCF2000.

I'm not having shares in Behringer, trying to sell, or anything like that, but in my opinion this still is one of the most inexpensive fader MIDI controlers with high fader resolution you can get!

I wrote some code to write/read the data from this fader panel. Usualy, MIDI faders only have a resolution of 127 steps (7 bit). For music production this often is enough, maybe in your case for games too, but for our purpose we needed more.
The advantage of the BCF2000 is that you can send messages to setup each fader's resolution, up to 14 bit (16383 steps)....
Also you can set the BCF to output a message each time a fader position is changed.

regards,
mcduck

Dear mcduck

I managed to get hold of one of these from my dad (after he gave up trying to use it for music!) and finally managed to get it to do something, output data to MIDI-OX, program controls etc.

I've been trying to do pretty much what the guy in the other forum did, i.e. use it as a controller for Orbiter (so many buttons!) using various ideas from the internet, such as GlovePIE and PPJoy to make it into a virtual joystick. Sadly haven't had any luck with this approach, and I was wondering if you'd had any better methods?

Thanks,
James