[bizzybody]

What'd be nice is built in support for the Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander.

This gizmo is for your left hand and has the following list of features.

Six programmable finger buttons with three thumb shift buttons, up to four different commands per button. (24 commands)

One rocker button with two programmable functions. (No shift capability.) (2 commands)

Eight way slide plus rotation for ten more programmable functions. (10 Commands)

All the above X3 with a three position profile slide switch, giving 108 total programmable functions.

[Water]

What'd be nice is built in support for the Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander.

It works fine without support 

[takashi]

i think butons are automapped once you set it as your joystick. button 1=fire, button 2=missle...and so on. support not needed.

[Water]

i think butons are automapped once you set it as your joystick. button 1=fire, button 2=missle...and so on. support not needed.

It's not like a joystick.
Freespace doesn't need to know it exists. It acts as a virtual keyboard. When I press button 3, Freespace sees a tab - afterburners go on. Thinking of it as a hand shaped keyboard is closer (sort of)

[bizzybody]

Yup, it shows up in XP's device mangler as a USB HID Keyboard Device, but without the programming software it does nothing. Games that natively support the Strategic Commander don't need Microsoft's software to program it, they handle the mapping internally.

[Water]

Yup, it shows up in XP's device mangler as a USB HID Keyboard Device, but without the programming software it does nothing. Games that natively support the Strategic Commander don't need Microsoft's software to program it, they handle the mapping internally.

try here http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=dosearch&qm0=Strategic+Commander&dp=3&sm=h&jmd=and
Unfortunately you will need to get a free account

[bizzybody]

Been there, got that, pissed off at Microsoft for not having it on *their* website. MS doesn't have anything for their Office Keyboard either, but they do have the Mac software for the ADB version of the really old Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick.