Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Flight Simulators: Keyboard Control Question Message-ID: <1990Jul26.020902.4814@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 26 Jul 90 02:09:02 GMT References: <9702@hacgate.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 26 In article <9702@hacgate.UUCP> koo@pub2.HAC.COM () writes: >Why do flight simulators *have* to map different keys for the same functions?!! > >I have Flight Simulator II, and it bugs me that FA/18 and FALCON have different >keys for throttle, flaps, banking, etc. The machine is hard enough to control >as it is! > >Has anyone thought about standardizing the key controls? There are so many >great flight simulators being introduced... I'll probably want to get one or >two, but I'd hate to learn the different keystrokes for each one! Plus it's >pretty hard to admire the scenery when one has to keep looking down at the >manual. > Frances (koo@tcville.hac.com) Well, thanks to the cretins at Lotus, and a braindead judge who never noticed how much easier standard interfaces make driving cars, it is now _legal_ _suicide_ to adopt a competitor's interface to make using a lot of similar products easier for the user. Don't you just love life in a society dominated by lawyers? Bleah. Kent, the man from xanth.