Greetings,

I used to play Descent 1 waaay back. It came to me on a 3.5 floppy disk, if you can imagine. As time went on, my PCs improved until I had to connect my Joystick via USB port, at which time the signal became way too slow to play.

Number one; it would seem that Descent 1, 2, 3 are still available, where is the best place to get them?

Number two, I used a joystick (and destroyed 3 hat switches, BTW) is that still the control device of choice? Where can I get what is best to play with today?

It's been a long time since I was in this world, I am not a gamer and don't completely understand the terminology and hardware currently in use. (I'm 73, so type slow and use small words.) :)

Many thanks for any help and tips to get me started back into the game.....

Bill

you can buy them right here on this site

edit:im having trouble trying to make the links

Here! Whatever you prefer! I wouldn't play flying games with mouse+kb, but I'm not everybody. I'd rather play a simple flight game like Descent with a gamepad than with a basic joystick. With the latter, you'd still need the keyboard.
But gamepad vs HOTAS joystick? For Descent? Preference!

https://www.gog.com/game/descent

https://www.gog.com/game/descent_2

https://www.gog.com/game/descent_3_expansion

Descent series are closer to a FPS than to a traditional flight simulator or even x-wing etc. There are more axis involved in the gameplay, to me a joy is not comfortable or practical enough in these games, the sensibilities and response and axis involved are better managed with a mouse and keyboard combo.

Greetings

Thanks for everyone's responses. I'm looking up all the terms you used.

Gudadantza, can you point me to anything on how to use keyboard and mouse to play Descent?

Well, in control options, into the game, by default you can configure all what you want. You can select the mouse/joystick/gamepad and rebind keys, mouse/joystick sensibility etc...