[geeks] SGI Sadness

[Kevin]

I think it flopped as a game controller.  A lot of people found
out that the actuality wasn't as cool as the concept.

I had the same experience with my Spaceball.  I bought it new to
use within 3DSMAX (v1.2) and just never ended up liking it that
much. I had a lot more fun with the demos that came with it than
i did actually using it in production.

/KRM


On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:53:06 -0400
Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Kevin wrote:
> > They are.  Spacetec made mine, and it is identical to some of
> > the re-badged SGI ones.  The same company also made a game
> > controller in the mid-late 90's.  I think it was called
> > SpaceOrb or something of that ilk.
> 
> SpaceOrb 360, iirc.  I have one somewhere.  A couple of times
> I've tried to get it working under Windows 2000, so far without
> success, on the speculation that it might make a good
> controller for FPS games.
> 
> 
> -- 
>  Phil Stracchino       phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
>     Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker
>  Mobile: 603-216-7037         Landline: 603-886-3518
> _______________________________________________
> GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks