Advanced Gravis Computer Technology, Ltd. was a manufacturer of computer peripherals and hardware. The company was founded in 1982 in British Columbia, Canada.
Their most famous products were the Gravis PC GamePad, at one time one of the most popular gaming controllers for the PC, the once-ubiquitous Gravis Joystick (black with red buttons), and the Gravis UltraSound add-on card, competitor to the Sound Blaster. At its peak, the company had almost 300 employees with a European office in The Netherlands, and was at the time the world's largest manufacturer of computer joysticks and gamepads.
The company was acquired by Kensington Computer Products Group towards the end of 1997. Although the brand remained in use for some time after this, with the website still active until the mid-2000s it has since essentially disappeared.
External links
- Gravis.com - Website archive from February 1997 (prior to Kensington takeover)
- ftp.gravis.com drivers
- Herní ovladače počátku 90. let photos of disassembled Gravis PC GamePad
References
"Get a Grip!!!: Joysticks Past, Present & Future". Next Generation. No. 17. Imagine Media. May 1996. p. 39. https://archive.org/details/Next-Generation-1996-05/page/n43/mode/2up ↩
"Immersion and Gravis Partner to Create New Force Feedback Devices; Innovative Technology Extends Opportunities for Developers". 2000-03-10. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202940/http://immr.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=111458 ↩
"[Gravis.com web site]". Archived from the original on 2004-11-25. Retrieved 2023-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20041125062211/http://www.gravis.com/ ↩