It seems I'm not the only one with major problems with the keymapper in DOSBox. I looks like it's been a long standing problem that the devs have no interest in resolving anytime soon. None the less, since the Festivus pole is up I might as well air my grievances with the keymapper. It looks like …

*** I FOUND THE PROBLEM!!!!! *** It was the keyboard mapper file being used. Apparently, you need to set your joystick up properly in it to get it to work. That or disable the mapper by entering a null string (""") in the custom DOSBox key mapping file. I've even managed to set it as the default. …

Over a year ago I posted of a problem with D-Fend not allowing my games to see my controller ( http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=44806 ). Been playing GZDoom since then, but now I'm getting back into some of my older games that need DOSBox/D-Fend to work. I see that the controller issue has …

UPDATE: I've been checking out some joystick related stuff since my first post. Here's what I've discovered so far: Another game I run under DOSBox, Hi-Octane, also uses the joystick controls. However, the X-45 (and a P880 D-Pad controller) does work with it when launched with D-Fend. I start …

OK, for the most part my upgrade to Windows 10 went smoothly, just a couple of "minor" nags that need to be ironed out. Even DOSBox was working well... until today. I was trying to play "Terminal Velocity", a game that worked well in DOXBox with my old Saitek X-45 HOTAS with GlovePIE programming. …