Try putting a breakpoint at
CBind * CreateAxisBind(Bitu axis,bool positive) {
(the first if) and see what the values for axis and emulated_axes are
before it crashes. Or use a bunch of LOG_MSGs (well two) in that function.

I've never plugged in a USB joystick... but I'll try that after work today. As for the icon issue... yes I've had that one forever. Never seemed to be important enough to complain about 😀

Yes, I've had that same icon problem (I replace the DOSBox icon with whatever game or app icon I've set that particular DOSBox up for, but then the icon changes to the DOSBox icon in the dock upon opening). Even if you make an alias to DOSBox and change the alias icon, the dock icon will still change back to DOSBox upn opening.

However, I've found a way around this that has worked for me (for 0.65, 0.70, and 0.71). In the info.plist in "package contents" for DOSBox, insert the following two lines:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

Then use the Unix "touch" command on the DOSBox.App directory and also on the DOSBox executable found at DOSBox.App/Contents/MacOS/DOSBox. Then make an alias for DOSBox, give it your favorite game icon, and drag the alias to the dock. Also, replace the dosbox.icns in the package contents with your favorite icon, renaming it dosbox.icns. After that, open DOSBox with the alias two or three times; the first couple of times the DOSBox icon will appear on the dock, but after that you'll just have the icon you want.

NOTE: The touch command also has the possibly negative effect of making DOSBox invisible to the OS X menu bar at the top. This doesn't bother me, but it may bother someone else. And also, there is no longer a little black arrow underneath the dock icon when DOSBox is open.

OK, this is a lot of trouble for what is in reality a tiny problem.

I can verify the USB joystick issue using DosBox 0.71, OSX 10.4.9 on an Intel Macbook C2D Pro.

I recall that at one point in time the mac os x package maker disabled our internal icon as mac os x would set it's own. This can be done inthe file src/gui/sdlmain.cpp

near the bottom (some #ifdef with BIG_WORDS)

Now this is totaly odd! I removed the icon init code in src/gui/sdlmain.cpp ...

1#if 0
2        /* Set Icon (must be done before any sdl_setvideomode call) */
3#if WORDS_BIGENDIAN
4        SDL_Surface* logos= SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceFrom((void*)logo,32,32,32,128,0xff000000,0x00ff0000,0x0000ff00,0);
5#else
6        SDL_Surface* logos= SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceFrom((void*)logo,32,32,32,128,0x000000ff,0x0000ff00,0x00ff0000,0);
7#endif
8        SDL_WM_SetIcon(logos,NULL);
9#endif // #if 0

..and added two LOG_MSG(); lines ...

1        LOG_MSG("========= JOYSTICK");
2        if( SDL_InitSubSystem(SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK) < 0 ) LOG_MSG("Failed to init joystick support");
3        LOG_MSG("========= JOYSTICK");

...and now joystick support works like a charm. I just played a level in Wolfenstein 3D and no issues anymore. Here is the output from console:

1[bali]:~/Source/_DOSBox_i386_BUILD/dosbox-0.71 $ ./src/dosbox
2========= JOYSTICK
3========= JOYSTICK
4CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /Users/rhoenie/Library/Preferences/DOSBox Preferences
5MIDI:Opened device:coreaudio
6Using joystick USB 2A4K  GamePad           with 2 axes, 4 buttons and 0 hat(s)

Any ideas whats going on here? 😀

Any ideas whats going on here?

OK.. found it. Nothing spooky here. Its just an issue with the universal binary - the native binary works the lipo'ed universal binary doesn't. I have to get deeper into this and do a new universal build for OSX.

🙄

The joystick thing is a problem with the dummy device. Maybe setting the
emulated_buttons to zero during initialization helps or something like that.

darkgamorck wrote:

I can verify the USB joystick issue using DosBox 0.71, OSX 10.4.9 on an Intel Macbook C2D Pro.

Same for PowerBook G4 Late 2005 w/MacOS X 10.4.10.
if DOSBox opened by using the Terminal, it replies just two words, "bus error".

Today I found something very interesting. I have a tool called Afloat (http://millenomi.altervista.org/Afloat/) installed in my PreferencePane. As long as I enable it DOSBox (native build) would crash on startup with a joystick attached. If it is disabled DOSBox comes up fine. I reproduced this several times so I am sure this is no coincidence.

Unfortunately this doesn't work with the universal DOSBox binary. 🙁 This one still keeps crashing no matter if Afloat is enabled or disabled.

I'll fix this soon in the cvs, maybe you can watch it and test it then.