Way back, I played Decent multiplayer with joystick (wouldn't/couldn't have it any other way). I always marveled at those with elite enough keyboard finger gymnastic skills to a pilot the Descent ship using just keyboard and mouse. After Descent game, I sold my joystick and didn't take up piloting by keyboard when BF1942 came along. Too lazy. My keyboard and mouse plane flying sucks with BF1942.
I'm assuming BF1942 has joystick inputs? It was insane me trying to fly the Descent ship by keyboard and mouse alone (until I got a joystick). It's insane me trying to fly BF1942 planes with keyboard and mouse alone. I suck at it.
BTW, anyone remember that game Descent? Not the single player, the multiplayer. "Minerva" map. The pickups were all over the place, but not all the time. Anyways, just saying that's the last time I had a joystick on my desktop. Music is a bit overload, video is a bit long, but you get the picture.