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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / February 2007Sidewinder usb joystick
Whenever I connect my sidewinder joystick to my mac, trying to use it in Virtual PC 7, I go into the usb settings and tell it to use it. I click OK, but when I go back in, it's unchecked. Is there any way to connect a usb joystick through Virtual PC? If so, how? > Whenever I connect my sidewinder joystick to my mac, trying to use it > in Virtual PC 7, I go into the usb settings and tell it to use it. I > click OK, but when I go back in, it's unchecked. Is there any way to > connect a usb joystick through Virtual PC? If so, how? Why would you want to?? Virtual PC is not designed for games - at best they will be slow (probably to the point of being unplayable) and any game that needs 3D graphics acceleration hardware will work at all. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) On Feb 25, 10:48 pm, Helpful Harry <helpful_ha...@nom.de.plume.com> wrote: > In article <1172445015.940759.72...@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) The reason why is because I have a mac, and up until now, I have had a pc. So, most of my stuff is Windows only. Windows 98 actually runs a bit better on Virtual PC because it uses less resources (lol, a Windows 98 machine w/ 512Mb ram, 16Mb vram, and a 120Gb HD.), plus, I can resurrect those old games that I used to love (NFS:II SE, MCM). On Feb 25, 10:48 pm, Helpful Harry <helpful_ha...@nom.de.plume.com> wrote: > In article <1172445015.940759.72...@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) The reason why is because I have a mac, and up until now, I have had a pc. So, most of my stuff is Windows only. Windows 98 actually runs a bit better on Virtual PC because it uses less resources (lol, a Windows 98 machine w/ 512Mb ram, 16Mb vram, and a 120Gb HD.), plus, I can resurrect those old games that I used to love (NFS:II SE, MCM). And actually, I got The Sims to run in a virtual Windows XP Pro machine. It was just slow... > On Feb 25, 10:48 pm, Helpful Harry <helpful_ha...@nom.de.plume.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > they will be slow (probably to the point of being unplayable) and any > > game that needs 3D graphics acceleration hardware will work at all. Rats! That was a typo. It should have said: ... and any game that needs 3D graphics acceleration hardware will NOT work at all. > The reason why is because I have a mac, and up until now, I have had a > pc. So, most of my stuff is Windows only. Windows 98 actually runs a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > And actually, I got The Sims to run in a virtual Windows XP Pro > machine. It was just slow... You can get some old games to work under Virtual PC if they do not need a 3D graphics card (I did play much of the way through the original Commandos using Windows 98), but they are very slow because Virtual PC has to basically translate every instruction from the original Windows Intel commands into the Mac's PowerPC commands and then exceute them, returning the results to VirtualPC again. Realistically it's not worth trying to play games in VirtualPC at all ... with the exception perhaps of things like Solitaire and Minesweeper. The newer Intel Macs are better suited for playing Windows games using BootCamp - that way you should get 100% speed, exactly the same as any pre-installed Windows computer. I'm afraid I don't know how you can get USB devices to work in VirtualPC ... my beige G3 PowerMac doesn't even have USB ports. :o) Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) |
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