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[โ€“] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They were historically good at input devices because they were the only ones with enough weight to get manufacturers to stop fucking around and use xinput, which guaranteed their hegemony with normal controllers for a long time. 5-10 years ago, it was basically impossible to get a normal controller (ie Xbox or ps layout) that was not approved by Microsoft, working in all games.

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LOL, my Microsoft joystick is so old it connected to the gameport on my sound card -- I'm pretty sure XInput didn't even exist yet.

[โ€“] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I think I had the same thing that we played Duke Nukem 3D with