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PowerRamp is a wonderful and whimsical controller that proves that computer gaming doesn?t have to be complicated to be fun. The
PowerRamp Arcade Stick has a nicely designed joystick, eight buttons with their own selectable autofire mechanisms (and all in a nice ?fighting game?-styled layout), two smaller buttons in the center of the controller specifically for ?Enter? and ?Escape,? and four small hyper programmable buttons above the standard buttons -- capable of 10-in-1 programmability! Quite frankly, this arcade stick has enough controls to make a die-hard gamer grin, but is simple enough for your mom to operate (really!).
The PowerRamp Arcade Stick is for PCs. Period. HOWEVER -- due to the nature of its design, it will work equally well with ANY game on ANY operating system, as long as it can work with keyboard inputs. That means that the PowerRamp will work with any games written for DOS (any version), Windows 3.1/95a/95b/98/2000, Windows Strikes Back, Linux, Unix, MEnix, ANYBODY ELSEnix... If it uses a PC keyboard (yes a PS/2 keyboard connection is also provided), it will work with the PowerRamp Stick! Now, tell me THAT?s not cool!
Act Labs? PowerRamp line is so refreshingly simple to install that I can tell you the WHOLE process here. Simply power down your PC, unplug the keyboard, plug the adapter that fits your keyboard?s plug into your keyboard, and put the plug that resembles your keyboard?s plug into your PC (where you just removed the keyboard from). Now, you have just plugged your keyboard ?through? the joystick and into the PC. Simply make sure that the cord you just plugged your keyboard through is connected to the joystick (it connects in the rear of the joystick) and you?re done. Just power up the system. There?s really no need to ever remove the joystick as long as you don?t put it somewhere that the buttons will get pressed or the stick will get hit when you?re not using it. That would cause letters to be typed (by the joystick). The joystick comes preprogrammed to a set of letters, but may be easily reprogrammed (during gameplay, if desired!) by pushing in the ?Setup? button, holding down the button you wish to program, and typing the key you wish to program it to be. (A red light will turn off and then back on to assure you that the input was captured.) Repeat for as many buttons as you wish to program, then press ?Setup? again to turn off the programming mode.
