Hi. In the 90's I would always play X-wing and Tie fighter with my keyboard arrows as the flight controls. It always worked fine for me and I got pretty far in the game despite being a kid. With the Gog versions (93 and 94). I'm noticing a huge lag between keypress and the ship actually moving. It's as though the key is mapped to a joystick axis with a considerable deadzone, rather than just treated as a button.

Is the game trying to emulate a joystick instead of just treating the keyboard as a keyboard? Is there a way to configure input?

Your right, arrow keys are pretty bad. Possibly something to do with the Dosbox mapper?

Your probably right. Even back then I would have used a flightstick for most of my flight simming/gaming. Of course back then a flightstick was pretty much part of every gamers rig, so I guess lucasarts considered it a none issue.

I still remeber being able to walk into any PC/ game shop around and having a whole shelf of flighsticks and joysticks to choose from if the one i was using broke. Not any more.

Yep, now if you don't want to break the bank and want something *decent* it's either Logitech 3D Pro, Thrustmaster HOTAS X or Thrustmaster t-16000m standalone, and the first two are the only ones you may be able to find in a brick and mortar store if you are *very* lucky, it's either Amazon or bust these days if you want to buy one.