analogue joysticks?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:08 pm

I believe you can use USB Overdrive to use a joystick under Mac OS X. Rough steps:

Install USB Overdrive.
Set your joystick axis settings to “Mouse Cursor: Absolute”.
Launch Oolite.
Enter full screen mode (command-F).
Launch ship.
Enable mouse control (shift-M).

harry747 · Post by **harry747** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:24 pm

Ahruman wrote:
I believe you can use USB Overdrive to use a joystick under Mac OS X.

sorry to disappoint you, but i've already tried the USB overdrive approach. didn't work. see my previous posts in this thread.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:10 pm

Hmm, yes. On further investigation, there’s no possible way absolute mode could work, and I must have hallucinated that it had worked for someone in the past. :-/

phonebook · Post by **phonebook** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:34 pm

bugger

harry747 · Post by **harry747** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:40 pm

So we're back to my request: PLEASE add joystick support to the mac version!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:46 pm

In short: probably not for a while. Nothing personal, it’s a triage thing; we want to get a “full” release done some time this century.

ovvldc · Post by **ovvldc** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:28 pm

As long as we get that feature before someone builds a real life working Cobra Mk III..

-Oz

zevans · Post by **zevans** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:28 am

I like how he quietly sneaked "century" rather than "decade" into that sentence

Post by **Kaks** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:58 am

give us 4 months, and we'll be more likely to use decade again!

harry747 · Post by **harry747** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:02 pm

Ahruman wrote:
In short: probably not for a while.

WAAAAAAAAH!
</desperate>

Nubo · Post by **Nubo** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:36 pm

This is probably common knowledge, but I'm having pretty good results using Gamepad Companion, to map my analog joystick to keyboard keys.

My logitech joystick has a hat switch and enough buttons to configure most in-flight commands right on the stick.

Now, surely it doesn't make me the Ace I could be with analogue control, But, it's sure a lot better than trying to chase pirates around the sky with friggin' arrow buttons!!

Pretty close to the way the game was originally meant to be played, imo. A true analog joystick is probably better equipment than originally intended and might be considered to give the player an unfair advantage. Tho' I'm not necessarily opposed. I had no guilt years ago when I re-wired 2 4pdt switches into my C64 joystick to reverse the controls so that I could easily deal death from my rear-mounted Military Laser!!

Certainly good enough to make me glad I finally downloaded this game. It's the 1980's all over again, and that's high praise.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:04 am

Nubo wrote:
This is probably common knowledge, but I'm having pretty good results using Gamepad Companion, to map my analog joystick to keyboard keys.

My logitech joystick has a hat switch and enough buttons to configure most in-flight commands right on the stick.

Now, surely it doesn't make me the Ace I could be with analogue control, But, it's sure a lot better than trying to chase pirates around the sky with friggin' arrow buttons!! Pretty close to the way the game was originally meant to be played, imo. A true analog joystick is probably better equipment than originally intended and might be considered to give the player an unfair advantage. Tho' I'm not necessarily opposed. I had no guilt years ago when I re-wired 2 4pdt switches into my C64 joystick to reverse the controls so that I could easily deal death from my rear-mounted Military Laser!!

Certainly good enough to make me glad I finally downloaded this game. It's the 1980's all over again, and that's high praise.

Welcome Nubo - during my C64 days I used a stick from an Atari 2600 and learned to spin the stick so that the direction of the stick facing top was matched to the view I had on my screen - death - death - death!!

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:16 am

Nubo wrote:

Certainly good enough to make me glad I finally downloaded this game. It's the 1980's all over again, and that's high praise.

Yes, I've been looking into the logitec's as a right hand solution. The left is covered with the nostromo.

Seems like a reasonably priced solution with some good programming behind it.

kcallis · Post by **kcallis** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:42 pm

Nubo wrote:
This is probably common knowledge, but I'm having pretty good results using Gamepad Companion, to map my analog joystick to keyboard keys.

My logitech joystick has a hat switch and enough buttons to configure most in-flight commands right on the stick.

Certainly good enough to make me glad I finally downloaded this game. It's the 1980's all over again, and that's high praise.

Just curious on what your configuration file looks like to get the gamepad working? I stumbled across the Logitech Game pad and now would like to put it to good use on the MacBook

NigelJK · Post by **NigelJK** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:31 pm

I'm just getting a logitech dual action gamepad (PS2 style) controller working in conjunction with controllermate. I'll let you know how I'm getting on.