Joymouse360

A long time ago I wrote a little program called JoyMouse. That program let you plug a joystick into a PC and control your mouse with it. This is a new version designed specifically to work with the XBox 360 controller. XBox 360 controllers come in two flavors, wireless and wired. Unfortunately the wireless ones don't work on the PC, but the wired ones do.

My main goal for Joymouse360 was to enable browsing the web while leaning back in my chair. The XBox 360 controller has enough buttons to make it a great tool for this. With Joymouse360, you have two mouse controls with different speed settings, arrow keys, all five mouse buttons, the mouse wheel, ENTER, ALT, and TAB.

Now the bad news. First, it'll only work with an XBox 360 wired controller. Second, it requires .net 2.0. You can download that from Windows Update. Third, it requires a version of DirectX that includes the new XInput API. You can get that here. Finally, it appears that XInput is still under development. If it changes, I suspect that I'll need to change Joymouse360 as well. So this has the potential to stop working. Thus are the trials of free software.

This program is freeware, but if you give it to anyone, you must also give them an unchanged copy of the included readme file. You may not make money in any way from distributing this program unless you first get consent from me. If you really want to "pay" me in some way, get three friends to start reading my free science fiction serial, The Daily Dose.

Michael P. Calligaro