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@minebrandon95264 4 күн бұрын
Where do I go for PC Format?
@juanignaciofaure6135 9 күн бұрын
Hello, I need your help, I have the sidewinder force feedback wheel with gameport to USB adapter, when I connect it to the PC I look in gaming devices and it doesn't take it, I would like to know if I can make it work with the controller or if there is no possibility
@ByteSizeThoughts 9 күн бұрын
Best of luck trying to get it to work, mine was the USB version so it worked at the time. I haven't tried with the gameport version and an adapter. Possibly someone else has and can help you. Maybe try installing the old sidewinder software to see if it detects it, otherwise perhaps the original model is incompatible with USB adapters now.
@MAZterXP 12 күн бұрын
Nice video, can you share this CD? I have a gun, but not CD, is there any drivers on CD?
@ByteSizeThoughts 9 күн бұрын
Hi mate, I sold this gun to another collector a while ago - however I remember that the drivers were on the game cd's too if I recall correctly. Try getting a copy of one of the games like Mad Dog McCree (probably can get an ISO off of the Internet Archive) and take a look around the Cd to see if it has the drivers for the gun. Best of luck!
@MAZterXP 9 күн бұрын
Thank you for reply. Yes, I found couple CD with lightgun test program, but when I try to install games, I got message "REALMagic card not detected", other games doesn't contain gun test program and looks like works only with mouse
@ByteSizeThoughts 9 күн бұрын
@@MAZterXP hmmm thats peculiar. I dont know what the REALmagic card is but looks like from a quick search that its a proprietary MPEG type decoder card? In any case the gun I had didnt need a special ISA card to work. I reckon I would try a few more ISO's if you can - try Crime Wave and the other Mad Dog Games, might take a while to get a working one ... otherwise perhaps start a thread on Vogons.org and see if anyone has the ISO there. Best of luck!
@link8296 12 күн бұрын
How would you get to caliration in Windows 11?
@BudFox575 13 күн бұрын
Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament were the games to play with the RIVA TNT2 😊😊😊
@ByteSizeThoughts 9 күн бұрын
Man they were the best! - I especially loved Unreal Tournament. Made me upgrade to a GeForce 2MX in my first year of Uni to make it smoootther for those multi kills :D
@DreamyAbaddon 18 күн бұрын
Microsoft likes to copy Sega. This controller is like Sega Saturn just like how original Xbox duke controller is like Dreamcast controller.
@ByteSizeThoughts 14 күн бұрын
they had a bit of a thing for a while too, Windows CE to power the Dreamcast, and then later a lot of Sega games published on Xbox once the Dreamcast was discontinued :)
@openlyracist8055 24 күн бұрын
I always wanted one of these as a kid watching videos of my uncles playing this while they were at college in the USA
@ByteSizeThoughts 20 күн бұрын
These early wheels were cool - but I could never have imagined how far wheels and sim racing would go though! Todays games and hardware is absolutely mind blowing (way more expensive though)!
@openlyracist8055 20 күн бұрын
@ByteSizeThoughts It just feels nostalgic, yet it makes me wince knowing the Logitech wheels would far eclipse this is just 2 years
@HermanG 27 күн бұрын
Hi. Great old video. Anyone know if this wheel work with ps5? Thank
@theotakone Ай бұрын
FINALLY someone that feels the same about V-Rally! Everyone was praising the graphics in its time but I could never get over the weird twitchy controls. I felt like an outsider being so put off by it Many game mags just called it "arcade'y" in its time but I just couldn't agree - good arcade-handling still feels controllable and looks & feels believable enough. Sega Rally shows best how that goes.
@ByteSizeThoughts 20 күн бұрын
I know right - I still enjoy playing Sega Rally on the Saturn at 30FPS and it's still so much fun. Great gameplay is timeless.
@bybzibybzi4541 Ай бұрын
I have been trying to run this game via DOSBOXX and it just keeps crashing all the time. Mostly in the base while talking to people. What am I doing wrong? Any chance I can get in touch with you?
@ByteSizeThoughts 20 күн бұрын
Sorry, I havent tried this in Dosbox for years so can't remember exactly how to do it - though I dont think I ran into issues with crashes between missions. You cant do too much with Dosbox except for tweaking cycle time for the CPU I think... have you tried different versions of Dosbox?
@dygy7193 Ай бұрын
Its the ram, I had the same computer with a dx2 66 and 16 mb of ram and played both doom and duke3d without any stutter
@ByteSizeThoughts 20 күн бұрын
You could be right, this old motherboard used the older SIMM RAM - maybe it was having to fall back on the old hard drive and that was causing the stutters with the sounds.
@WolfieMar Ай бұрын
wdym "what happened" it's 2 decades old and discontinued
@ByteSizeThoughts 20 күн бұрын
2 and a half decades old! Holy crap, where does the time go :D
@BOOSTEDDUDE Ай бұрын
Glad you figured it out and got it working! That basically how Quake ran on my old PC with this card. This brings back memories! The first time I saw OpenGL Quake with my Diamond Voodoo 3D first gen 4MB card I was BLOWN away! It was the first time ever seeing true 3D in my early PC gaming days. I had a lot of fun with my card and just listed it for sale. I didn't have Windows 95 or 98 to test it with now but I would of looked for Quake to test it!
@ByteSizeThoughts 20 күн бұрын
Good luck with the sale - 3DFX cards have definitely climbed in price since Covid but they are very nostalgic. Its cool to revisit the hardware even though we have more power on our phones these days! Thanks for commenting and sharing your memories mate - Merry Christmas!
@IrishObyrne Ай бұрын
AAFES
@JohnAmanar Ай бұрын
Great video! I still have a TNT 2 :D
@ByteSizeThoughts Ай бұрын
Thanks man :) The TNT2 was legendary for me, the best!
@davidhunt240 2 ай бұрын
Wow, that took an eternity to boot. BITD I upgraded from WFW to 95 on a Deskpro 386/25 and it booted way quicker than this, although that did have 16MB and a "fast" ESDI hard drive 😝
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
I think this had a lot of stuff in the start up files that could have been optimised and the original hard drive was a bottleneck. I did end up putting in a DX4 100 in it that made it run much better but have since rehomed this machine with another collector
@9852323 2 ай бұрын
The p3 lasted a long time. I was still using a p3 733mhz 768mb ram and Windows XP until like 2010 for normal daily use and had no issues whatsoever. Now I have core2duo machines capable of running Win11 just fine.
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
That's pretty solid! XP was an excellent O/S as well.
@shaunt7175 2 ай бұрын
Nice video on a classic. My first time going to the buisness section of PC World with my father and we bought top line executive multi media with TV and FM tuner card with record function. Its was something like £3000. Remember flight sim, C&C and worms. Also force feed back sidewinder and the free game where you fight off aliens and control tanks. Classic days of PCs, thank you for the memories.
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing your memories. I used to get so excited by all the 'free' software that came with these PC's back then. I still have very strange nostalgia for the San Diego Zoo 'The Animals' CD Rom :D
@57plymmie 2 ай бұрын
Very nice. I remember buying this brand new at Office Depot for $225. I think it was 1999. I had a lot of fun with Napster waiting 40 minutes for an Mp3 to download. And then burning a less than 10 track music CD haha!! It was so fun. It was all worth it 😎😎😎
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
Ah the days of Napster! I used to keep my computer running all night to download mp3s when I was at Uni. Was bloody noisy and didnt do my studies any good :D I also remember blowing a lot of my student loan money on a plextor drive in 2000!
@robjones8733 2 ай бұрын
Oh this makes me want to play Papyrus Indy Car Racing! 🙂 Have to boot into DOS for that one I believe.
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
Check out a youtuber called GPLaps - he records full seasons with great commentary and even has his modern steering wheel hooked up to it. You can get it running through DOS Box on a modern computer.
@robjones8733 2 ай бұрын
@@ByteSizeThoughts Thanks for the info, I'll look for his channel. 🙂 I've got an older PC with a Voodoo 3 in it, not sure it will boot. Need to fire it up!
@HarryTuckerIII 2 ай бұрын
I had one of these in 1997 ... was an amazing machine for its day ... drew a lot of attention riding the train out of NYC every night.
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
I can see why it turned heads, it was a beautiful machine in its day and way ahead of its time. Thanks for commenting!
@KatherineSanford-v8n 2 ай бұрын
Another Papyrus vet checking in. End of GPL through NR2002. Great time working on all the games and the in house GPL league was amazing. DK would usually smoke everyone driving with an old Logitech flightstick.
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
GPL was (is) tough! I cant imagine playing with a joystick too :D Thanks for sharing the memories - must have been a really cool period for sure.
@danibluray 2 ай бұрын
I had the game port version, 2 of those ones daisy chained. Amazing! now I got the USB version but it came without the software. I know it is not needed but do you happen to know which software came with it? thanks.
@PROSTO4Tabal 3 ай бұрын
Nice retro gaming pc
@ByteSizeThoughts 2 ай бұрын
Thanks, I havent fired this one up in a while - I should really get it out of storage and into the rotation :D
@kevingillett9337 3 ай бұрын
I had the Hercules tnt2 ultra. I thought I would never get it because they went out of business close to its release but it showed up one day by mail. That was a great card replacing my original tnt I got shortly after getting into PC gaming. Miss those days!
@ByteSizeThoughts 3 ай бұрын
Yeah I remember the hype in the magazines around the Hercules branded cards (did they have blue PCBs?). I never tried one out back in the day.
@RichardArkax 3 ай бұрын
hey dude , i know you probably won't reply but i just wanna say you you're awesome. extremely good video.
@ByteSizeThoughts 3 ай бұрын
Hey, thanks! :)
@jamiehav0k62 3 ай бұрын
Thats pretty horrendous! win 95 doesnt belong on 486. win 3.1 or dos boot much quicker.
@ByteSizeThoughts 3 ай бұрын
It was slower but usable :D I remember when Win95 was launched but I only had my old Packard Bell. It was awesome going to the new user interface but I always dropped down to DOS to squeeze all the performance I could for Doom :D
@benponsford2742 3 ай бұрын
It looks tiny! Do you know the diameter of the wheel?
@ByteSizeThoughts 9 күн бұрын
sorry for delay - it is indeed tiny. I sold mine a while back so cant measure but from memory it was even smaller than my G27 wheel. Back then these were kinda toys compared to modern sim racing wheels :D
@benponsford2742 8 күн бұрын
@@ByteSizeThoughts Yeah, the G25/G27/G29 wheels are all 27cm in diameter, which I'm sure was larger than the older Momo series (I had both at one time). The Wingman Force Force (also from 1999) was just 25cm in diameter but the Sidewinder looks smaller again. I am making a database of wheels but sizes weren't so routinely listed for early hardware.
@fenchurchmarie5224 3 ай бұрын
1.2 mb were double sided HIGH density 360k drives were double sided single density And you totally skipped the 720/800k double sided 3.5" floppies
@ByteSizeThoughts 3 ай бұрын
Correct yes - this video definitely could do with a refresh with some of those errors that slipped through. Thanks for taking the time to comment (and watch)! Can you believe that some of these disks are 30 - 40 years old at this point? Even more astounding is that you can get SD cards up to a Terra-byte in size :)
@WASPjasper 3 ай бұрын
I can accelerate and brake and shift up and down but the steering isn't working, can anyone help? I'm playing Raceroom on steam
@ByteSizeThoughts 9 күн бұрын
Does your model need the power supply? The ones with force feedback sometimes need the PSU to work properly. Alternatively try installing the old sidewinder drivers. I dont have my wheel any more unfortunately to try with modern sims. Best of luck getting it working - otherwise try to find an old logitech G27 or later wheel on marketplace cheap :)
@JacobDavis2407 4 ай бұрын
Why is my wheel going up and down on calibration for pedals? Like I’ll have my foot on 100% on the pedal and it’ll go between two different spots
@melaninfuture 4 ай бұрын
Yesssssss. It’s all coming back. This was the card I could afford. lol.
@ByteSizeThoughts 3 ай бұрын
A 3dfx is better than no 3dfx :)
@danieljimenez1989 4 ай бұрын
This controller was pretty good, I remember it was awesome for uniracers.
@ByteSizeThoughts 3 ай бұрын
an addictive game!
@lazibayer 4 ай бұрын
NVidia demolished the competitors by choosing the right strategy of being a mere chip maker. Their rivals, Matrox and ATi had been making cards by their own, 3dfx and S3 bought STB and Diamond respectively.
@ByteSizeThoughts 4 ай бұрын
Agreed - a very good perspective.
@NebachadnezzaR 4 ай бұрын
I just got one for the princely sum of 3€ (plus 5€ shipping, but still) and it's perfect for old games that work with DirectInput and don't require analog sticks. The buttons feel great and it was immediately recognized in Windows 10, which I wasn't expecting. It's my go to for games released in the late 90's and very early 2000's.
@ByteSizeThoughts 4 ай бұрын
Yep - I agree. Feels good in my hands still - was good ergonomic design
@Pidgeonz 5 ай бұрын
My uncle had this for his Mac back in 2001-2002. We played Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed all the time before he passed in 2003. Great early 2000s memories with this wheel ❤
@dieglhix 5 ай бұрын
amazing times 😪😪
@ByteSizeThoughts 3 ай бұрын
Tell me about it
@JamesBond-gg4wg 5 ай бұрын
Is there a usb version of this gun?
@ByteSizeThoughts 5 ай бұрын
Not that I know of specifically for American laser games. I think these MSDos games pre-date USB by a couple of years at least. It would be cool if the Sinden light gun (which is USB) could have an old justifier design like this but I reckon they dont want to create something that looks too similar to a real gun these days.
@alienpoisonxanadu_antibeauty 5 ай бұрын
Pacar bel
@mbwoods2001 5 ай бұрын
My first proper pc that i bought(not counting the 486 that was returned after a few weeks!) was the Pentium3 500, with Savage 4 3d 32meg gfx card, which then was upgraded to 700mhz, and finally to 933/133 with a slocket converter. Ram was doubled to 256meg, and gfx card upgraded to Geforce 2 Titanium. I sidestepped to the AMD AthlonXP, then back to Intel with the Pentium4 3.2, then Core2quad 2.4, and finally to Core i7-950 3.06ghz(which was then now upgraded to Xeon 6-core 3.33ghz)
@ByteSizeThoughts 5 ай бұрын
Wow, you definitely got some mileage out of that first PC going from 500 to 933 and up to a Geforce 2 TI! The speed of change back then was mindblowing! Thanks for sharing.
@mbwoods2001 5 ай бұрын
@ByteSizeThoughts yeah, the pc had selectable speed and multiplier via jumpers, so worked out what was the fastest cpu the mobo could take, and with 7.5x multiplier and 66/100/133 bus speed in which i plumped for 933mhz coppermine socket 370 cpu that i got for reasonable price, plus a slocket converter. Also, when i went to buy it, initially had a 16meg TNT graphics, then on the day of purchase said it had a 32meg graphics which I thought was a TNT or TNT2 card, but was slightly disappointed that it wasnt an nvidia card but a Savage 4 3d card. I skipped a generation and went with the geforce 2 titanium when the geforce 3's arrived. At least i could play the latest games without having to break the bank!
@stripedhyenuh 5 ай бұрын
By far the best d-pad I've ever used for fighting games. Shame my 15-pin one stopped working after less than 2 years and the USB one I got as a warranty replacement from Microsoft also died in around 2 years. Great controller, but after a quality control disaster like that I never bothered seeking out another one.
@KevinSills 6 ай бұрын
I bought the Monster 3D card back in 1997, and I was hooked on 3D gaming after that. In 2023 I decided to get another Voodoo1, and I bought an older HP computer to run it in. I have 42 games for that computer now with a Geforce 2 MX400 paried with the Voodoo 1, and a SB Audigy sound card running on a 24" wide gaming monitor. NFS2se looks fantastic, so does POD. :)
@ByteSizeThoughts 5 ай бұрын
Nice - nostalgia is a drug! I have been able to buy quite a few of the old games in their original big box packaging. However the prices have gone through the roof, back in 2018 or so games were going for $20 for a bundle, now they are minimum $50 a piece :D
@rahithahsan188 6 ай бұрын
I miss Window XP and Sony Vaio!!!!!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
@iamwonderFil 6 ай бұрын
what WASNT fun was finding out your agp wasnt theright one 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, and they wernt all playing friendly with all the diff gpus
@ByteSizeThoughts 6 ай бұрын
Agreed! Building PC's back then meant that some expensive mistakes could be made as the standards kept advancing so quickly hey.
@emerygrimm 6 ай бұрын
I got this to work on Macbook too!! I needed the controller companion app (yeah it’s paid I know) and it recognized it and connected immediately. Confirmed working on American truck simulator on 7/5/24 on the M2 chip (edit: can’t confirm if it works or not through parallels with the ARM processor but it does work on base MacOS with the installation of that driver.)
@ByteSizeThoughts 5 ай бұрын
Nice! Thanks for sharing, hope this helps some others
@yokushund1887 6 ай бұрын
Played nascar 1 & 2 with a Logitech wingman flight stick. It was brilliant for mastering turns compared to a keyboard 😀
@ByteSizeThoughts 6 ай бұрын
Yeah keyboard is so hard especially with the AI - but some people were able to do it! We are spoilt these days with the quality of steering wheels - its amazing how far we've come.
@medicffsc 6 ай бұрын
I was a huge gamer in 2001 and had all the sidewinder series, my nephews laughed when I show them but man mech warrior, disable, unreal tournament was awesome with his plus the sidewinder joystick for flying was awesome to. They have all gone missing for my collection so someone like them and helped themselves to them. But man the memories. I was a military fireman and we were all computer gamers we'd have lan lines running all around the firehouse and it was crazy a lot of the guys started using PlayStation 2 when that came out but I stuck with my computer. I was just reaching my son who loves computers how to use the keyboard and was telling him about this gem he said I need that can't believe sidewinder was dis in 2003 man I'm old 50 years old and my sons 4, long live SIDEWINDER!! GREAT VIDEO .
@ByteSizeThoughts 6 ай бұрын
Thanks man - that was an awesome memory to share and brought a smile to my face this morning! :D
@1234ainixiangni 6 ай бұрын
The first computer I bought was a Packard Bell. It's a terrible one probably it used Cyrix CPU.
@prezeskodaty4637 6 ай бұрын
buys riva tnt1 ultra
@GuanGuanGhoo 7 ай бұрын
It would be funny if someone succesifuly got his sidewinder Gamepad working in a Xbox