Totally Lost With Trying To Configure The Joysticks In Xroar
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:31 pm
I hope someone is going to be able to help with this...
Some games on the Dragon clearly require joysticks. For example, Dragon Invaders is joystick-only.
Xroar has the possibility to use a "virtual joystick" (i.e. the keyboard configured as a joystick).
To use the virtual joystick, you press CTRL-J and then the arrow keys and Alt act as the movement and fire button respectively.
The trouble is with movement. When you press to move left, it is as if you smacked the joystick as far as it would go to the left. I assume the Dragon originally had potietometer (not sure if that's spelled correctly!) joysticks and the harder you pushed, the faster your on-screen game character control responded.
The Xroar manual tells you to configure the virtual joystick via a conf file which, in Windows, would involve something _like_ typing the following:
joy-virtual kjoy0
joy-axis 'keyboard':X=2,254 'keyboard':Y=1.5,190.5
However, the manual is too confusing for me to get to grips with. I wish it gave a few examples! I just want the craft in Dragon Invaders to respond slowly to a press of the left or right keys. Anyone else had this problem?
Some games on the Dragon clearly require joysticks. For example, Dragon Invaders is joystick-only.
Xroar has the possibility to use a "virtual joystick" (i.e. the keyboard configured as a joystick).
To use the virtual joystick, you press CTRL-J and then the arrow keys and Alt act as the movement and fire button respectively.
The trouble is with movement. When you press to move left, it is as if you smacked the joystick as far as it would go to the left. I assume the Dragon originally had potietometer (not sure if that's spelled correctly!) joysticks and the harder you pushed, the faster your on-screen game character control responded.
The Xroar manual tells you to configure the virtual joystick via a conf file which, in Windows, would involve something _like_ typing the following:
joy-virtual kjoy0
joy-axis 'keyboard':X=2,254 'keyboard':Y=1.5,190.5
However, the manual is too confusing for me to get to grips with. I wish it gave a few examples! I just want the craft in Dragon Invaders to respond slowly to a press of the left or right keys. Anyone else had this problem?