I've seen people discuss and patch things for the Windows build of Dosbox, however I'm not having any luck figuring out how to get the controller working on the Mac version. Has anyone been able to do it natively without running Parallels or Boot Camp or similar?
You could try "game profiler" (i think) ftom the app store. I was able to connect my cordless logitech gamepad through that.
Or search for gamepad in the app store. I'm not even remotely near my mac and thus cannot name it correctly
I can connect the controller and use it with no issues with non-dosbox games, however the problem with dosbox is that it maps the axes and buttons incorrectly. For me, I would prefer if the traditional X/Y axis of a typical joystick used in dos would be mapped to the directional pad or the left thumbstick, and buttons 1-4 mapped to ABXY, instead of whatever the heck it thinks it's doing.
I just looked on the app store and there's a program called "gamepad companion" that's 8 bucks, that allows for mapping keyboard buttons to things on a joystick, which is not at all an ideal solution. I'd like to be able to use the joystick as an actual joystick with analog control, for games like X-Wing and the like, and all things considered 8 bucks is kind of a rip off considering all this software is available on PC for free, as well as modifications to the dosbox client itself to hack a 360 controller into working as one would envision. What I'm hoping for is equivalent hacks for the Mac version of dosbox or something like that.
Well, if it works in other games, then you will have to compile dosbox with the patch for the 360 controller to see whether that works...
