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Cockpits - homebuilt
Cockpits on location
Cockpit manufacturers
Computers
Control
Display
3D glasses and Head Tracking
Sound and Vibration
Links
Cockpits - homebuilt
The
home built cockpit
ranges from just a support for your joystick and throttle up to full-motion cockpits that rival commercial training units in their complexity.
If you're thinking about building your own, look at these
articles on how to build a cockpit
.
Cockpits from real aircraft are shown in
Aircraft in Action
Cockpits on location
This index looks at commercial, military and academic simulator cockpits which are sometimes accessible to the general public -
Cockpits - Locations
Cockpit manufacturers
This index looks at companies who make components to serve the home - cockpit builder and professional training organisation.
Go to the index of
cockpit manufacturers
Computers
The MiG - Puters
1982 -
Apple II
1988 -
Atari ST
The PC era
1992 -
486 DX2 66 PC
1998 -
Pentium-233 MMX
2000 -
Celeron-466
2001 -
Pentium 166 laptop
2004 -
AMD-2100
2006 -
Pentium-4 - 3 GHz - rigged for silent running
Applying
Windows patches
Controllers
Hardware 101 - Setting up your sticks
How to
setup your controller in Windows
USB power management
Here are my tips on setting up your throttle and joystick for basic combat flying -
Basic Controls in Air Combat Sims
Flying on your laptop
Rudder pedals
Bob Church's Rudder fix
Microsoft Game Voice
Gravis
Saitek
Sidewinder
Thrustmaster
Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
SlickSteel S1 Stainless Steel Mouse Pad
Cockpit Collection
Voice Buddy
Voice control - Game Commander
Display
The MiG - cards :
16 K colour card for the
Apple 2
On board colour graphics in the
Atari ST
S3 1 MEG SVGA in the
486 PC
Banshee
- The Banshee used
3DFX
chipsets.
GeForce 2MX
Geforce 3
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Multi monitors
Monitors
graphics card manufacturers
Bugeye Tech
- 3 window Flight Simulator suitable display system
3D Glasses and Head Tracking
Track IR
Sound and Vibration
Aura Interactor
Body Shakers
A debug applet for Direct X 8
Nexcient Game Seat
Links to sound sites
Links
Hardware Links
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