360 Controller with Lion Continued

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes.

Following on from yesterday, I downloaded Borderlands from the Mac App Store along with Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal and Portal 2 from Steam.

Borderlands worked immediately with the 360 controller. A good start.

Portal 2 also worked straight away but sadly none of the other Steam games recognised the controller. I tried the exec 360controller command in the developer console but that didn’t make any difference either. Having done more reading online it appears that the Mac version of Steam doesn’t support gamepads with the source games. An article written in May 2010 mentions:

360 Controller + Mac + Steam != Fun

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes.

I saw a lady on the gadget show playing games on a MacBook Pro with a 360 controller and as I already have two wireless controllers for my 360 I thought it was worth investigating. A little bit of research online told me that you need a Microsoft dongle to make the wireless controllers work with a computer or I could buy a wired controller for less than the cost of the dongle.

Xbox-360 on idw.xyz

360 Controller with Lion Continued

360 Controller + Mac + Steam != Fun