Heh, probably for the better π€£
bekopharm
joined 1 year ago
Say⦠how far on the dark side of the moon am I living if I never heard about this streamer before? xD
I get the charm of a console for gaming. Just switch it on and go. Still prefer a PC at the end of the day though. For once my preferred genres are very unrepresented on consoles and since I dabble in DIY I do not have that level of freedom on a console or mobile phone. Well, do some extend. Fiddling around with key remappers that hijack on the accessibility system is horrible. Anyway, I enjoy tinkering and this is not really something consoles are known for, no?
This said it is very amazing that I can just e.g. fire up Waydroid nowadays, connect an X360 controller and play AmongUs with the little one on my Linux PC. That level of possibilities is mind boggling.
Quite an impressive list (together with the other posts). And here I thought I was a space nutter (thanks Beyond The Frontier!).
Missing the slug throwers Diaspora: Shattered Armistice and House of the Dying Sun though. The former is an Open Freespace mod in the BSG verse with a great campaign, the latter a rather short but still very nicely done pew pew that shines especially on sound effects (and I guess VR but I didn't try that). Both do TrackIR though (and I even hacked together an OpenTrack provider for the native Linux version of FSO).
I wonder where my 04 install went xD
dunno, it's for the flowers π€·
Smol update here too: Made a tiny demo video show-casing the cockpit in action in Elite Dangerous π
Pick your poison:
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/1nokGf66oWj34EdMvxYbSn / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXofGR4GRLk
Just slaughtering pirates (wasnβt in the cockpit for months) but you get to see it from a first person perspective this time because I strapped the camera to my headphones π
This. They are also known as "arcade buttons". Everything you want to really smash :D
Huh? Rebirth and X4 do run natively, yes.
Minus some details like head tracking but I am needling em about this again and again so there is hope and the workaround is okay-ish π
I even fired up Beyond The Frontier (for the lolz) via Wine and even that worked π€ͺ
As an avid[1] X4 Foundations player I'm more than happy that I stumbled over @[email protected] today.
I couldn't find a cross referencing link from their website [yet] but I did check back on their Discord and got the confirmation by belgoray that this account is indeed official
[1] I'm really batshit crazy about this game - heck I even hacked it to sideload an UDP server to interface with my home cockpit π€
No idea about $$$ and if they even ship to your location but I got my hands on a Backforce One Plus for 500⬠and that thing is day and night compared to my last. Arm rests are a little bit wobbly but the rest⦠dead gods I hope it lasts for the rest of my life.
That's from someone with a lot of back pain for⦠reasons.
What you see is a glorified DIY joystick controller with a LCD ('MFD') and plenty of RGB inspired by a VF-1 (Block 6) Valkyrie of the Macross franchise.
I use it mainly to play Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, X4: Foundations and plenty of other Space Pew Pew.
It's mobile and can be stashed easily because my battlestation is, unlike most gaming rigs, also my workstation and has to move a lot. It's also frequently occupied by my kids who also love clicky buttons and compete with me for stick time :D
It's completely DIY and made on a budget (no really). It's also Work In Progress, like probably any home cockpit out there.
For the PC it's just a joystick and an additional display. The magic starts to happen when I manage to interface with the games to display live game data and adjust the blinken lights depending on the current ship telemetry.
Am I crazy? Yes, probably. It's a hobby and when Corona happened indoor hobbies became kinda a thing again π€
Edith says: Should have added this from the beginning: I do foster a project website that has additional details, pictures and videos: π https://SimPit.dev (yes it's slow - hold the line :P)
Videos are usually mirrored to πΉ https://tube.tchncs.de/a/bekopharm or πΉ https://www.youtube.com/@BekoPharm (pick your poison).
Additional content may be found on π https://beko.famkos.net/category/simpit/ or on β οΈ https://hackaday.io/bekopharm
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Thanks π