I'm trying to get Tie Fighter Collectors Edition working, using a USB Joystick (Thrustmaster T.16000M) to control it. This is on my retro gaming PC (currently PII 300MHz, 384MB RAM, S3 Virge DX, SB32, MT32/SCC 1 (through SB32 MIDI port) and a Voodoo 2. Might get an upgrade to a P3 700 with up to 2GB RAM)

Problems :

Run it in pure DOS, there's no joystick, even using the USBJSTIK driver, as Tie Fighter uses DOS4GW
Run it in a Windows 98 MSDOS Window, joystick 'works' but mappings are wrong. Thrustmaster software is incompatible.

If I ran it in XP (untried), theoretically it might work (with Thrustmaster's software), but there would be no soundcard support. VDMSound? I'd rather not use DOSBox.

I reckon my best option is to find suitable joystick remapping software - what's the best out there? I'd like to get 'the lot' working, including throttle and the buttons mapped to key presses.

Advice?

Next step at the weekend is an SSD w/SATA to IDE converter, rebuild the machine with DOS 6, W98, XP (to download GOG games) and OS/2.