Oolite Bulletins

Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:04 pm**

hi.

does oolite support analogue joysticks? if so, can anyone recommend one?

Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:15 pm**

A bit on the expensive side, but OHHHH so nice...
CH Products Combatstick

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:05 am**

yeah, 100 bucks is not exactly cheap. but i'll see if i can get my big hands on one. do i have to install any drivers, or will it work out of the box?

anyone using the saitek cyborg evo? i can get one of them for £40...

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:27 am**

Mine worked out-of-the-box with Vista.

The Saitek's are nice for the price. I settled on the CH after reading about reliability problems with the Sai's, however. I'm sure some folks here have had positive experiences with them. One of my co-workers loaned me one, and it was fair. I just tend to operate under the principle of "Buy it once, buy it right." YMMV.

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:21 am**

"Buy it once, buy it right."

makes sense. but i like to try before i buy. IOW, go to a local shop so that if it doesn't work for me, i can give it back. wouldn't be the first time. anyway, at the weekend i'll see what i can see...

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:43 am**

Since when do joysticks work on Oolite on the Mac? I always thought those, and gamepads, were only supported on Windows and Linux..

Or maybe I am confused.

Best wishes,
Oscar

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:56 pm**

i guess i'll find out...

Posted: **Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:43 pm**

Cmd. Cheyd wrote:
Mine worked out-of-the-box with Vista.

any experience on the mac? i want to use it on the mac, that's why i posted this in the mac forum.

I got that saitek stick, and i can't get it to work right. i put oolite in mouse control mode (why do I HAVE to be in fullscreen mode to do that???) and if i set move cursor to absolute in USBoverdrive, the pitch and roll indicators won't stay in the middle or anywhere else except the ends. if i set it to relative, oolite responds more or less the way i want, but faaaaar too slow to be useful

is there anything i can do about that?

BTW, I got the saitek because the CH fighterstick was £150, that's almost FOUR times the price of the saitek. anyone using the fighterstick (or any other CH stick) with oolite under OSX? i don't want to spend that much money if i don't know it's gonna work...

Posted: **Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:23 pm**

harry747 wrote:
why do I HAVE to be in fullscreen mode to do that???

Mainly because in windowed mode you'd keep getting the mouse cursor in front of oolite itself, which can be a distraction (like having a fly in your field of vision) - in fullscreen the mouse cursor is hidden, so there's no cursor flitting about when you're steering the ship...

Posted: **Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:05 pm**

There’s also the issue of what to do if you click outside the window. A common solution is to hide the pointer and hijack mouse movements, but Giles didn’t like that approach.

Posted: **Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:43 pm**

been a while since i checked out and built oolite. any news on the joystick front?

Posted: **Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:51 pm**

harry747 wrote:
been a while since i checked out and built oolite. any news on the joystick front?

Some stuff fixed in latest trunk build I believe, could be worth a try.

Posted: **Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:20 pm**

Just updated and built the latest version. Noticed some changes, but my stick still doesn't work

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:07 pm**

this issue is preventing me from buying a macbook pro!
i need a new laptop, and want a mac one badly- but i need to run a joystickede oolite on it too!!!

damn damn damn

haha

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:12 pm**

Can some developer PLEASE add joystick support? Thanx.