Joystick or Gamepad in the Arcade...

[Franko]

Just visited the Amiga.org games section for the first time, was total crap at it due to the fact that trying to play the Breakout/Arkanoid style game and using the mouse, I didn't last more than a few seconds, cos trying to control the bat with the mouse is hopeless...

Every time I tried to move the bat/paddle my mouse pointer would leave the small gameplay window and leave the bat stuck on the screen...

Is there any way to play these games using a joystick or gamepad, I have a usb competition pro and a usb snes gamepad connected to this iMac but neither would work.

Anyone one know if it's possible to use these in the Amiga.org arcade and if so, how !!!

[tone007]

I know there are joystick to mouse drivers for PC, never looked into it for Macs.  For the Arkanoid game in particular, I'd try zooming in with your browser to make the game larger if your G4 will handle the scaling (Firefox supports this, not sure about Safari) and possibly lowering the mouse sensitivity.  Much more playable that way.

[Franko]

Cheers Tone007

I'll give both those ideas a wee go and see if it works, it's kinda weird though as I can use the joystick or gamepad on this iMac without having installed any drivers to play my C64 & SNES emulators...

[tone007]

Emulators generally expect input from a joystick device, web browsers don't.  However, here's one piece of software for Mac. http://www.orderedbytes.com/

I'm sure there are others as well.

edit: wrong link!

[Franko]

Just tried the macs zoom function, worked a treat, got on the high score table on my first attempt, cheers Tone...

[Franko]

AAARGGGHHH.... :madashell:

I just trounced the all time high score in the Arcade on Starship Troopers and when the game was over the ruddy LOG IN screen popped up and now me high scores gone... :furious:

How do you stop this silly automatic log out from happening, seems pretty daft to me if you get logged out by the system while playing a game, anyone in charge care to mention how to sort this...

Oooh ah'm really peeved... :madashell:

[Minuous]

I'd suggest using a real emulator instead of rubbish Java/Flash-based crap.

[tone007]

I'd suggest using a real emulator instead of rubbish Java/Flash-based crap.

But there's no competition with other Amiga.org members offline!

[Franko]

I'd suggest using a real emulator instead of rubbish Java/Flash-based crap.

Haven't got a Scooby Doo what your talking about !!!

If you mean the emulators I'm using on my iMac for the C64 & the SNES, then I don't know what they're are written in and it doesn't matter to me, all I know is they run that games at full screen & full speed without any problems...

(PS: Just beat the high score AGAIN and got ruddy well logged out before my name was registered, if this were a real arcade the machine would be receiving a severe kicking right now... C'mon A.org sort this out please... )

[tone007]

Which browser are you using?

[Franko]

Safari...

[tone007]

Might be worth giving Firefox a shot and seeing if the behavior is any different.

[Franko]

It only happens here on Amiga.org, seems to be after ten minutes or so, if I don't click on a new thread to read or even in the middle of typing a long post, I get logged out.

I thought it was something to do with the way A.org is set up, as I say it doesn't happen on any other site...

[tone007]

Steve Jobs is eating your cookies.  He needs them, though, the scrawny salesman.

[Franko]

Steve Jobs is eating your cookies.  He needs them, though, the scrawny salesman.

I've just had a quick look through my cookies (gawd there's tons of them) Mr Jobbies can't be eating enough of them though as I've got plenty left and he's still a skinny scrawny creep... :roflmao: