Celebrate Jack Thompson’s Lifetime Disbarment with ControllerButtons 1.0
In case you haven’t heard, anti-video game lawyer jack Thompson’s lifetime disbarment went into effect today. He’s obviously not just going to go away, and there’s still a chance that he could get it overturned, but I feel that it’s good enough to celebrate.
A few months back I wrote a little program to allow me to play games which don’t support joystick input with my Gamepad Pro USB controller. The code was mainly just a playground for me to explore a few things, and wasn’t well-designed at all, but I got the crazy idea of releasing it in celebration of Thompson’s disbarment.
There are some serious limitations with the program. It doesn’t support joysticks with hats and it doesn’t save your settings. However, I figured it was better to release something that works than nothing at all for the occasion. I will improve upon it in the next few days, and to release the source code when I consider it stable. If you want something stable right now, you might want to consider ControllerMate.
Download it here and enjoy. Of course, I recommend that you play I’m O.K., a game designed by Thompson himself, in the few minutes left until the day is over. It runs fine in Darwine.