The challenge: to take the best flight sticks in the world and make them better. That was the proposition facing the ThrustMaster team as they considered how to bring the F22 Pro and TQS into the new millennium. Len "Viking1" Hjalmarson files this preview of the return of the venerable line of high-end ThrustMaster controllers.
posted 03-30-2001 01:27 AM
Yeahhhh!!!! I am salivating, can you say Pavlov? I heard about these sticks almost a year ago. I had just sold my digital and F-22/TQS set up and was already suffering whithdrawal. (This was around falcon v. 1.07 and I was fed up). Bottom line--I can't wait. Also, the smartest TM did was to get James Hallows on board. His software was always stable and rock-solid and made programming the TM fun!
Good luck to the team and bring it on!
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Little Ditty
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posted 03-30-2001 05:51 AM
What else can one say? This will obviously be the ultimate HOTAS rig ever created, bar none. The sad thing is the exchange rate for any non-americans like me who would intend buying these. Doh!
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Viking1
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posted 03-30-2001 11:57 AM
I asked the head of the design team if it was okay to say that the gear will be on the shelves this summer.. he gave me the nod
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TruGrit
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posted 03-30-2001 04:57 PM
They wouldn't happen to need any product testers would they?
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Viking1
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posted 03-30-2001 06:38 PM
The beta team was assembled about six weeks ago..
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joebelter
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posted 04-09-2001 03:01 PM
Any idea what "about" what the price will be on these? Ballpark? I've been using a FLCS/TQS/RCS for many, many years... Thanks! Joe
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Viking1
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posted 04-09-2001 03:07 PM
The original idea was to keep them near the price of the originals, so far as I know that goal hasn't changed.
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