Macally iShock II - Mac OS 9 support?

[joshc]

I've got an iShock II gamepad and I was hoping to use it for some OS 9 gaming but from what I can tell, it only supports OS X. Is this true?

I've tried to get it working with USB Overdrive under OS 9 but it doesn't seem to be working, hopefully I'm just doing something obvious wrong.

 

[joshc]

Hmm, the manual says OS 8.6 or later and Apple USB Support 1.4.1 or later...

I've installed the Macally driver and when I open the control panel, it says an iShock is not detected.

 

[joshc]

I've got it doing something... plugged it into a PCI USB card instead of one of the G4's built-in USB ports and it's now at least detected on the bus. USB Overdrive and System Profiler can see it, but the Macally control panel still can't.

 

[joshc]

Where I got to last night with this: Still can't get Macally control panel to recognise my iShock II, either using the earlier or later version of the software.

What I did realise is that something I was trying to achieve is not really possible, I wanted to use it with Unreal Tournament but that game isn't really setup to support a gamepad like this - I think there is some minimal joystick support but I couldn't get one stick to act as movement and one to act as look.

Either way, USB Overdrive is able to map the buttons on the iShock, although it's a bit unclear which actions are for which button as USB Overdrive just has a generic list of joystick buttons rather than anything specific to the iShock.

My guess is that an original iShock would work better than the iShock II with OS 9, though I don't know why, just a hunch.