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Title: Hello, I Finally Registered!
Post by: Firesteel on April 10, 2015, 11:41:49 pm

I realized today that I should have done this many years ago, but I finally did it. FreeSpace 1 was the second game I ever played, and that was probably 12 years ago in elementary school. It took me until high school to discover you guys, and I'm incredibly happy I did, I'm still not sure why it took me so long to make an account, but in spite of how busy I've gotten, I keep coming back here for a respite and to see what you guys are up to, and every time, I find something new to be impressed by.

Some cutesy facts:
I started playing FreeSpace with a trackball mouse (and have returned to that). In the interim I used the weird joystick/mouse thing in the middle of old Lenovo/IBM laptop keyboards to play (you'd be surprised at how well this works, along with the trackball).

I'm a game design student and I run a tiny, insignificant Youtube channel where I try and spread some discussion around the internet <30 views at a time and videos when my schedule allows.
https://www.youtube.com/c/FiresteelGameAnalysis (https://www.youtube.com/c/FiresteelGameAnalysis)

EDIT: Wow was I tired when I wrote this last night. It felt so much longer. I guess I should say a little more in retrospect. Way back before I discovered HLP, I tried making mods (and were they terrible, but hey, I was 10 or 12 back then). Seeing the work being done here, and studying computer science along with game design, has certainly re-sparked my interest in FreeSpace modding, as I might actually be able execute on concepts now that I wasn't when I had no clue what I was doing.

Title: Re: Hello, I Finally Registered!
Post by: jr2 on April 12, 2015, 05:34:41 pm

That would be a trackpoint.  Someone else here swears by them as well (sorry, can't remember who off the top of my head).

(http://whiteboxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Trackpoint-post-detail-page_0111.jpg)

You can actually buy a USB keyboard with one of those (which I just found out while looking up the image!)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/191555517852?lpid=82&chn=ps

Title: Re: Hello, I Finally Registered!
Post by: Phantom Hoover on April 12, 2015, 06:37:39 pm

yeah, sure, 'trackpoint'

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/appropriate_term.png)

Title: Re: Hello, I Finally Registered!
Post by: Lepanto on April 12, 2015, 06:50:01 pm

Welcome to the show! HLP can always use creative people with cool ideas! :D

Title: Re: Hello, I Finally Registered!
Post by: Goober5000 on April 13, 2015, 12:40:20 am

:welcome:

Title: Re: Hello, I Finally Registered!
Post by: Firesteel on April 13, 2015, 02:30:17 am

I had no idea those were available on USB keyboards! I haven't used one in quite a while (the trackpoint that is). The first computer I had FreeSpace running on was an IBM T-51 if I remember right. Thanks for the welcomes everyone!