yeah, i see options for 4 axes in the dosbox.conf file. Is it more likely that Xwing and TIE fighter don't support them? (As they were never coded to receive input from more than two)

Well, putting this all on XP went off without a hitch. Everything "just worked" without any fiddling needed, joystick included. Guess I won't be bringing XWing to work any time soon! Anyways thanks to everyone who responded. It's nice to know that there's a helpful community out there for things …

Interesting... so it doesn't matter that my joystick has 4 axes, as long as I tell Dosbox that it only has 2? Dosbox does actually recognize my joystick for what it is (correct brand, correct # of axes buttons and hats), so is this just XWing not playing nice with more than 2 axes? EDIT: Also, …

Hello everyone, I'm new here. I just found out a few days ago that all (or at least most) of my favorite old DOS games are runnable even on my new vista laptop. One of my favorites from "back in the day" is X-Wing, and I have the collector's edition CD for DOS. After a little poking around, I got …