![]() (Damn you, WASD!) However, a website called Birdman's Lair kept the hacks and tweaks and tricks alive for a decade. The Hardcore Fans and the Death of AwesomeĪs a controller, there are advanced versions that are you used for 3D modeling, but as game controller it just never happened. Technically superior in every way, but just didn't happen. The SpaceOrb 360 is truly the Betamax of controllers. Even new users can look down left, turn and strafe all at the same time because they just turn, push and twist the ball. Now, with the SpaceOrb, imagine the ball is your head. It takes a while, and for many new folks (your spouse, your mom) they just give it up and think you're nuts. Think about all the trouble newbies have learning how to move a person around a First Person Shooter (FPS) with a mouse and keyboard or with a two-stick controller. It's a rubber ball on a stalk that you can push or turn in any direction. It was hardcore, insane, and deeply awesome. Llast week, in a random moment of Googlebinging, I found this site with the title: The ultimate orb solution, at last. Ultimately my lack of deep knowledge of driver code was my undoing.Īnd here's the beginning. I hooked it up several times over the last few years and made various attempts to decode the serial output, first without the spec, then later with a leaked? copy of the serial spec. Much like a beloved, but passed-on pet that an owner keeps frozen hoping that far-future technology will help them unfreeze and cure (too much? Ya, I thought so too) I've kept my SpaceOrb frozen in Amber waiting for a day, decades hence, when I might bring it back to life and back to its former glory. I've always loved this controller and I've kept mine in my pile of technocrap, even after I held my legendary "box of technocrap auction" in 2007. If you didn't live through the SpaceOrb's hayday (around 1994-5 with the original Quake, and Descent, truly one of the greatest games ever) then this post will sound like I'm a crotchety old dude trying desperately to relive my the golden hour of my youth. ![]() If you've ever tried a SpaceOrb, you probably already know this. and it's a tragedy that it lost the battle to " WASD" keyboard and mouse gaming and the "two thumbs" style of controller. See what I did with the all cap there? It's the G.O.A.T. 15 years later and I'm still convinced that the SpaceOrb 360 is THE GREATEST GAME CONTROLER OF ALL TIME.
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