Throttle is useful but slightly tricky to get it to work with these games (depends how smart your software is that maps the joystick controls to mouse/keyboard.) PC USB joysticks should be fine. Just about any joystick that fits well in your hand and has a lot of buttons would suffice. IMG probably has some old joystick reviews lying around. Use it to make the joystick look like a mouse, and make the joystick buttons issue keyboard commands as desired. Once that works, try USB Overdrive or its competitor, whose name I can't remember. first get the game running with your mouse. Joystick: I don't think USB joysticks will be detected by either game. Pilot dies, you just have to try that one level again. But Tie Fighter built that feature into the game. These days noone would stand for a game that forced you to start over from scratch like that! Anyway, you get around it by backing up your pilot file before running the program. X-Wing forced you to back up your pilot file manually because you could lose your pilot completely if you died during a mission. The levels will load instantaneously on modern machines. The graphics are pretty basic, but the gameplay is great, even the training levels. These are classic games, well worth taking some effort to install. Anyway, any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I tried searching the forums on this topic, as suggested above, but was unable to find anything-maybe I'm just really bad at searching.
Could anyone recommend a good joystick for these games? Something midrange I imagine, but I'm not sure.
Has anyone managed to install a joystick on a computer with the ability to run BOTH OS 9 and X? Has anyone ACTUALLY tested either of these games in OS 9? Do they in fact work? I do not, however, have a joystick, though I can get one easily enough. This, of course, means I can boot into OS 9 as opposed to running it in Classic. I have a 733mhz G4, with OS 9 and X on it. I had a couple of questions, and I was hoping some experienced and cool people could help me out. I just purchased the X-Wing Collection, which includes Tie Fighter and X-Wing.