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Use your XBox 360 controller with your Mac
I don't own an XBox 360, but I hear that it is the best thing to come out of Redmond for a long, long time. Now, if you are a Mac user and an Xbox 360 owner you might be keen to hook up your XBox's controller to your Mac for some Mac gaming fun. Sadly, you have been out of luck in that regard, that is until Colin Munro whipped up some OS X drivers for it. Now you can gleefully kill things on your Mac and not have to get used to another control (it even supports force feed back).Thanks, Harrison.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve Yun said 5:08PM on 5-19-2006
I'm wondering if this is for the wireless controller or for the wired one.
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Scott said 5:23PM on 5-19-2006
Looks like it's just for the wired controller, but he's working on an updated driver for the wireless version.
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Brendan said 5:41PM on 5-19-2006
If it worked with a wireless controller, I would seriously think about buying one! And I don't even own an X-Box :)
Please guy, make this work with the wireless controllers. and then you'll get your donation ;)
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microdot@microdoted.com said 5:42PM on 5-19-2006
"the best thing to come out of Redmond for a long, long time"
if by "best thing" you mean a complete and total waste of $400, then yes.
xbox 360 = glorified paperweight with built in space heater.
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cameron aka desk003 said 5:50PM on 5-19-2006
microdot you're just an ignorant fucktard.
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Geoff said 5:59PM on 5-19-2006
The 360 is indeed pretty cool.
For even more Mac-360 love, I found this cool program from Nullsoft that lets you view your photos and music from itunes and iphoto on your 360.
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360
Also, Microsoft is coming out with a wireless dongle that allows the wireless 360 input devices to be used on PCs. Hopefully the most awesome Colin Munro would come out with some drivers for that.
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Twist said 6:23PM on 5-19-2006
Timely reporting as usual. Only about 4 months late this time.
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Brendan said 7:38PM on 5-19-2006
"cameron aka desk003 " the fact of the matter is, that your the xXXXxxxX. X-Box is over-rated.
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Liquidmark said 8:32PM on 5-19-2006
#7
on what level of reality?
For the price, The 360 is insanely powerful. Man, it costs almost $400 to get a graphics card that can even come close to handleing what it's GPU by itself can do...
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C. Grant said 2:03PM on 5-20-2006
How is the 360 overrated Brendan? By who? What metric? From my somewhat privileged vantage point, I would say that the entire industry has been impressed with Microsoft's sophomore effort.
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king said 3:23PM on 5-20-2006
That driver for 360 that alows for music ...simply beautiful. Now if they can make one for video ahhhh mannnn....delicious porn streamed...lol
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Michael May said 7:27AM on 5-21-2006
Microsoft will soon release a USB peripheral (for windows) which receives the signals from the wireless controller(s). presumably this will be similarly easy to port to mac.
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.:EnDyk:. said 6:23AM on 6-03-2006
Xbox 360 usb controller working on simple Xbox?
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EnDyk said 6:25AM on 6-03-2006
Xbox 360 usb controller working on simple Xbox?
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